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These Mice are Eating Seabirds Alive, and Here’s What’s Being Done About It

Islands are biodiversity hotspots. They only make up 5 percent of the world’s land mass, but they are home to 20 percent of its bird, reptile, and plant species, many of which are endangered. So, what ...
Digital Journal

S.Africa plan to ‘bomb’ mice that eat alabatrosses alive

Albatrosses on a far-flung South African island are being eaten by mice - Copyright AFP STR Albatrosses on a far-flung South African island are being eaten by mice ...
Live Science

Mice on remote island that eat albatrosses alive sentenced to death by 'bombing,' scientists decree

The wandering albatrosses of Marion Island can't defend themselves against an invasive mice population that devours birds alive, but conservationists say a rodenticide 'bomb' could save them. When you ...
The Conversation

Murderous mice attack and kill nesting albatrosses on Midway Atoll − scientists struggle to stop this gruesome new behavior

Wieteke Holthuijzen received funding for research from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Northern Illinois University, Sigma Xi, and Island Conservation. She is ...
The Victoria Advocate

S.Africa plan to 'bomb' mice that eat albatrosses alive

Conservationists said Saturday that they plan to bomb a remote South African island with tonnes of pesticide-laced pellets to kill mice that are eating albatrosses and other seabirds alive. Hordes of ...