Nesting native seabirds thrive after invasive rats are eradicated

Nesting native seabirds thrive after invasive rats are eradicated

After a years-long multi-agency effort to eradicate invasive rats on Wake Atoll, ecosystems are already showing signs of bouncing back. Island Conservation, an environmental nonprofit organization that tackled the effort in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of Agriculture and the Air Force’s 611th Civil Engineer Squadron, announced this week that 16 species of nesting native birds are reappearing and increasing …