However, the atoll faces tough battles every day: invasive plant species that damage
the habitat of albatross and burrowing petrels often killing them; deadly plastic pollution, much of which ends up in the stomachs of chicks; climate change that causes ever larger and more lethal storms.
Their daily tasks include monitoring the health
of the
albatross populations, keeping the Laysan Teal
habitat safe from botulism, battling the invasive weeds and planting native plants, cleaning beaches and much, much more.