Tiny Indian Ocean Island Shows How Quickly Seabirds Recover When Invasive Predators Are Removed

[Michie]

Pair of brown noddies (by Phil Guest, CC license); and red-footed booby (by Gregg Yan, CC license)

18 years after rats were eradicated, Tromelin Island off the coast of Madagascar is a thriving colony of seabirds once again.

The same story happened over and over during the age of exploration: Europeans brought rats or rabbits on board their ships and dumped them on delicate, pristine island ecosystems.

Hundreds of islands became desolate wastelands this way, damage that has for the most part been reversed, as GNN has reported, in one of the greatest conservation stories ever told.

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Tiny Indian Ocean Island Shows How Quickly Seabirds Recover When Invasive Predators Are Removed

Tromelin is the most recent example of conservationists being able to completely rewild a landscape back to a period before European contact.

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[AlexB23]

Pair of brown noddies (by Phil Guest, CC license); and red-footed booby (by Gregg Yan, CC license)

18 years after rats were eradicated, Tromelin Island off the coast of Madagascar is a thriving colony of seabirds once again.

The same story happened over and over during the age of exploration: Europeans brought rats or rabbits on board their ships and dumped them on delicate, pristine island ecosystems.

Hundreds of islands became desolate wastelands this way, damage that has for the most part been reversed, as GNN has reported, in one of the greatest conservation stories ever told.

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Tiny Indian Ocean Island Shows How Quickly Seabirds Recover When Invasive Predators Are Removed

Tromelin is the most recent example of conservationists being able to completely rewild a landscape back to a period before European contact.

www.goodnewsnetwork.org

Amen to this. Goes to show how conservation can go a long way. If only everyone in a position of power can invest in conserving our world.