SciencePalmyra Atoll Rats Eradicated After 70 Years, Native Trees Rebound
Black rats arrived at Palmyra Atoll in the 1940s and prevented native Pisonia grandis trees from growing by eating their seeds. Conservationists launched a bait drop campaign in June 2011, successfully eradicating the rats by June 2012. Following this, over 7,700 native tree seedlings have grown, restoring the atoll's ecosystem after decades of rat dominance.
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