RE: South Georgia is rodent-free for the first time since humans first visited the island over 200 years ago, thanks for the world’s largest rodent eradication effort

[gyldenhorn]

That was happy reading @Valth
Rats have been infesting all island man have visited since we started exploring the world so it is good that we also fix things again :)

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[valth]

Yep, rats are way too good at hitchhiking with ships and infesting new areas.

Speaking of fixing human mistakes of introducing animals: we Norwegians also brought our raindeers down there so they could hunt and eat these when whaling. The entire island used to have a huge population of them until Statens Naturoppsyn went down there and killed them all a few years ago!