Sentences with phrase «rat eradication efforts»
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.
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On Anacapa, the eradication effort came with a $ 1.6 - million price tag, not including additional costs for rat prevention and future monitoring, officials said.
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.
Along with killing off black rats, the first phase of the eradication effort killed nearly 50 birds from 11 different species, Faulkner said.