The last rat on Tromelin Island—a small teardrop of scrubby sand in the western Indian Ocean near Madagascar—was killed in 2005. Rats had lived on the island for hundreds of rat generations. The ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The remote Aleutian site known for two centuries as Rat Island, notorious as the first spot in Alaska despoiled by rats, has a new, more dignified name to celebrate its ...

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For more than two decades, the Pribilof Islands have implemented a rat prevention program to keep the island rat-free. (John Ryan/KUCB) It may sound silly to outsiders, but for the remote Pribilof ...

Archipelago case-study shows that removing invasive rats and restoring native vegetation could help bring back hundreds of thousands of breeding pairs of seabirds lost to tropical islands Hundreds of ...

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. Alaska's Rat Island has finally become rat-less again nearly 230 years after a Japanese ship wreck sent its vermin scurrying onto the island. The rats eliminated all ...

The Vangunu giant rat is a species that exists only on one of the Solomon Islands. Local residents had deep knowledge of the rat, which researchers had never seen alive. With the help of the ...

The people who live on the island of Vangunu were adamant that the critically endangered species still existed. They helped researchers prove that they were right. By Rebecca Carballo For years, the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska's Rat Island is finally rat-free, 229 years after a Japanese shipwreck spilled rampaging rodents onto the remote Aleutian island, decimating the local bird ...