Sentences with phrase «black rat population»

They are particularly vulnerable because they nest in the same cliffs and grottoes that house the black rat population.

An animal advocacy group has dropped a lawsuit against the National Park Service in exchange for the opportunity to independently observe the eradication of Anacapa Island's black rat population.

Efforts to eradicate the black rat population from the East Anacapa islet were successful, Faulkner said.

If humans had been able to take responsibility for the black rat population in the 14th century, history would have been spared one of its worst horrors and the rat would not have the evil reputation it has today.

On Anacapa Island, the National Park Service eradicated the introduced black rat population that had decimated the population of nesting Scripps's murrelets.

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It is hoped that individuals from the breeding population will eventually be reintroduced to Lord Howe Island, providing black rats can be successfully eradicated from the island.

Yellow - legged gull population control and Black rat eradication at important target species breeding colonies;

In ancient times, keeping the rat population under control was of primary importance due to the spread of fatal diseases such as the black plague in Europe.

At Anacapa, introduced black rats preyed heavily on seabird eggs and chicks severely depleting populations of Scripps's murrelets.

Faulkner said the black rat eradication on East Anacapa also served to preserve populations of certain reptiles and amphibians.

The black rat is not in danger of extinction, and the eradication of the population on Anacapa will not endanger the species.

These feral mammals largely contribute to controlling the black rat and feral cat population.

That was a time of famine and resultant plague as weakened, starving populations succumbed to the rat & flea borne Black Death.

In his book, «Rats, Lice, and History,» H. Zinsser speaks of the outbreak of St Vitus» Dance, strange seizures attributed to the terror of The Black Death, «mass hysterias brought on by terror and despair, in populations oppressed, famished and wretched» to a degree unknown in the western world today.