Restored Rat-Free Islands Could Support Hundreds of Thousands More Breeding Seabirds
June 18, 2024
June 18, 2024
LANCASTER, England, June 18 (TNSres) -- Lancaster University issued the following news:
Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and native vegetation restored - a new paper finds.
In a first of its kind study, researchers also calculated that there are enough fish in the seas surrounding the remote tropical islands that were the focus of the research within hunting range of seabirds t . . .
Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and native vegetation restored - a new paper finds.
In a first of its kind study, researchers also calculated that there are enough fish in the seas surrounding the remote tropical islands that were the focus of the research within hunting range of seabirds t . . .