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Topic: Island Conservation

March 8, 2021March 9, 2021 By Tim Stephens
Return to Rat Island: Researchers help restore native species to Aleutian island chain

A researcher holds an oystercatcher egg on Hawadax Island. Oystercatchers are one of the species of native birds that were being decimated by non-native rats before conservation efforts began.

Return to Rat Island: Researchers help restore native species to Aleutian island chain

In 2008, UC Santa Cruz researchers led a conservation effort to remove invasive rats from an island off Alaska’s Aleutian archipelago. A decade later, native island birds and the seashore ecosystem are returning to their natural balance.

Topics: Bernie Tershy, conservation, Donald Croll, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Island Conservation

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