"Rat eradication" refers to the process of completely eliminating or getting rid of rats from a specific area or location.
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Initial recovery of Xantus's murrelets following
rat eradication on Anacapa Island, California
Yellow - legged gull population control and
Black rat eradication at important target species breeding colonies;
Over the last 15 years in the United States, a series of
rat eradications from islands has been implemented using aerial broadcast approaches.
A massive
rat eradication effort took place in the 1990s and was successful — getting rid of the egg - eating pests brought back burrowing seabird numbers.
Anacapa Island: Monitoring of Anacapa's Scripps's murrelet colonies have shown that they are recovering following
rat eradication in 2002.
But
while rat eradication efforts have worked on some islands around the world, many such attempts have failed.
Removing invasive rats from islands is a powerful conservation tool, and practitioners are now targeting larger islands
for rat eradication.
Faulkner said the
black rat eradication on East Anacapa also served to preserve populations of certain reptiles and amphibians.
Young's earlier research on Palmyra's terrestrial systems produced a large data set that predated
the rat eradication.
The rat eradication is part of an ongoing program at Channel Islands National Park to return native flora and fauna to the islands, but the methodology has drawn the ire of a variety of environmental groups.
Seabird benefits from
the rat eradication were quickly realized.
Two animal rights groups have asked the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Anacapa deer mouse as an endangered species and immediately halt
a rat eradication program underway on Anacapa Island.
In the works for about five years,
the rat eradication plan is one of many coastal restoration efforts funded by a $ 9.1 - million settlement with BP America stemming from the 1990 American Trader oil spill off Huntington Beach.
The rat eradication is apparently complete, Mrozek said, although federal officials have said they will not be certain for a year, until another breeding season passes.