Because I have always loved this story, some updates "Melbourne Zoo announced on Wednesday its world-first breeding program, set up in 2003 with just one pair of insects, had notched up 13,000 hatched eggs." (2016) "Lord Howe tree lobster officially back from dead as island pushes ahead with poison program" (2018) The rat has driven five endemic birds and 13 invertebrates to extinction since it invaded from a beached supply ship in 1918. Lord Howe Island has the "third most instagrammable lagoon in the world"The plan, passed by a six-to-one margin, will involve dropping tonnes of bait across the World Heritage island in the winter of 2018 to eradicate the black ship rat Rattus rattus and the house mouse.
I disagree with the linked article because there's nothing in murica... I mean c'mon, we've got... like... the entire state of Louise-ee-annah... and swaths of Flo-reeyeduh. There has to be an instagrammable lagoon in there somewhere...Lord Howe Island has the "third most instagrammable lagoon in the world"
Wow! They're in San Diego! I wonder if there's any in the Pacific Northwest. I'd love to see these things.