For years, Bikini Atoll has been associated with the destructive legacy of nuclear weapons testing. Stanford University reported that between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 23 nuclear devi...
In 2011, conservation teams set out on one of the biggest rat eradications ever on a tropical atoll, targeting an estimated 30,000 invasive rodents on Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific. The goal wa...
Black rat eradication restored Midway Atoll’s ecosystem, helping Bonin petrels rebound from fewer than 5,000 to over 135,000 breeding pairs The successful removal of invasive black rats from Midway At...