In 2016, New Zealand targeted an estimated 200,000 mice on Antipodes Island; two years later they were declared gone, and subsequent surveys found two native bird populations had more than doubled
The team used helicopters to spread cereal bait containing the rodent toxin brodifacoum (Picture: Mouse free marion) In 2016, New Zealand launched a major operation to remove an estimated 200,000 mice from the remote Antipodes Island. The mice were the only mammalian pest species on the island, but their impact on the ecosystem was…
