Sentences with phrase «nonnative black rat»
That plan involved killing off the murrelet's last unnatural predator on the island: the nonnative black rat, which biologists suspect crashed the island's fragile ecosystem in a shipwreck decades ago.
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Before sending the critters to their original homeland, however, the Lord Howe Island Board plans to eradicate the black rats and a second nonnative rodent in 2018.
«The black rat was the last nonnative animal on this island,» said Kate Faulkner, chief of resource management for the park, as she hiked up the rugged path toward Inspiration Point on a recent media tour of the island.