http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/voyage-to-eradicate-rats-and-save-birds-2303219.html
Voyage to eradicate rats and save birds
Monday, 27 June 2011
The RSPB will be destroying the entire rodent population found on Henderson Island – an uninhabited part of the UK's Pitcairn overseas territory in the South Pacific – in a bid to save the endangered grey-brown Henderson petrel, a bird that is found to nest only on the world heritage site.
As part of the £1.5m project, scientists will drop rat poison from the air. The partnership will also see a ship and two helicopters taking a 17,000-mile voyage around three islands in the Pacific.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13904188
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