University of California Santa Cruz: Return to Rat Island - Conservation Strategy Leads to Ecosystem Rebound
March 09, 2021
March 09, 2021
SANTA CRUZ, California, March 9 (TNSJou) -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news:
Along the western edge of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago, a group of islands that were inadvertently populated with rodents came to earn the ignominious label of the "Rat Islands." The non-native invaders were accidentally introduced to these islands, and others throughout the Aleutian chain, through shipwrecks dating back to the 1700s and World War II . . .
Along the western edge of Alaska's Aleutian archipelago, a group of islands that were inadvertently populated with rodents came to earn the ignominious label of the "Rat Islands." The non-native invaders were accidentally introduced to these islands, and others throughout the Aleutian chain, through shipwrecks dating back to the 1700s and World War II . . .