South African conservationists plan to eradicate mice threatening seabirds on Marion Island using pesticide-laced pellets in 2027.

South African conservationists plan to use 600 tonnes of pesticide-laced pellets to bomb a remote island, Marion Island, home to a quarter of the world's Wandering Albatross population, to eradicate mice eating albatrosses and other seabirds alive. The mice, proliferating due to climate change, threaten 19 of the island's 29 seabird species with local extinction. The Mouse-Free Marion Project will drop the pellets in 2027 when mice are most hungry and birds largely absent.

August 24, 2024
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