Review of a Large-Scale Pacific Rat Eradication Attempt from an Uninhabited World Heritage Site: Project Approach, Lessons Learnt, and Future Directions

• Published in: Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference
• Main Authors: Hall, Jonathan, Stringer, Clare, Kelly, John
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2014
• Subjects: aerial baiting; brodifacoum; eradication; Henderson Island; Henderson petrel; Pacific rat; Pterodroma atrata; Rattus exulans; World Heritage Site; Life Sciences; Pacific
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/36h7d0z1

The United Kingdom’s Overseas Territories support the vast majority of the globally threatened species for which the UK is responsible. Henderson Island (43 km²), located in the South Pacific and part of the Pitcairn Islands group, is a near-pristine example of a raised coralline atoll and is intern...