Tag: eradication

Rat Island, one of many islands in the Aleutian archipelago in Alaska, used to be aptly named. Invasive rats first arrived after escaping from a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s....

Washington State Department of Agriculture entomologists have tracked a nonnative Asian giant hornet back to its nest for the first time. After collecting three hornets, the team fitted them with...

On the British overseas territory of Gough Island in the South Atlantic, albatross numbers are plummeting, and researchers say the reason is introduced house mice. The researchers discovered that the...

There are some preconceived notions that free-ranging wild pigs (Sus scrofa), an invasive species in North America, are unlikely to survive in cold areas since many of them are invading...