South Georgia declared ‘rat-free’ in largest-ever rodent eradication program

Mongabay
May 9, 2018, 6:33 am111 pts
The remote island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean has finally been declared free of invasive rats and mice in the world’s largest-ever rodent eradication effort. A monitoring survey last month, which included three trained sniffer dogs, found no trace of any rats or mice on the island, making…

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