Removing rats helps revive forests, birds & coral in the Marshall Islands

Mongabay
Oct 3, 2025, 5:12 pm217 ptsTrendingTop
On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats. Rats were once so abundant on Bikar and Jemo that they “utterly dominated the lower levels of the forest,”…

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