Rats invaded paradise. Here’s how paradise fought back. Invasive rodents spent more than 100 years eating their way through Australia’s Lord Howe Island, sending several species to oblivion.

Rats. Killing native birds and wildlife, ravaging crops and gardens, undermining the tourist trade. There are now some 1,000 rodents for each of tiny Lord Howe Island's 350 residents.

Recent accounts of Lord Howe Island present a territory in ecological crisis. Rats have overrun the island and are threatening numerous endangered species. Time is running out and something ...

Black ship rats have caused the extinction of at least five bird species and 13 invertebrates on Lord Howe Island - a 10km long curved island that sits in between Australia and New Zealand.

The endangered Lord Howe Island woodhen. Credit: Alamy The change in the little island since the rats disappeared has been spectacular, says Terry O’Dwyer, a biologist who worked on the program.

For the very first time tonnes of rat poison will be dropped on the pristine Lord Howe Island to exterminate a plague of 360,000 rats, but the decision has deeply divided the community.

In 1918, a ship beached on Lord Howe Island. It brought rodents to the lush, crescent-moon-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea for the very first time.

Lord Howe Island’s plague of rats to be exterminated with air-dropped baits. Helicopters will drop tonnes of poison across the pristine World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island as part of a ...

The NSW Government has spent more than $3 million over the past six months to catch less than 100 rats on Lord Howe Island after an eradication program failed to wipe them out.

After a ship wrecked on Lord Howe Island, a rat population invaded and eradicated a species of giant stick insect—or so researchers thought. By Sarah Gibbens. October 9, 2017 ...

A radical plan to rid Lord Howe Island of a rat plague by aerial baiting has split the community with tourists warned against eating fish and plans to pour milk from the island’s dairy herd down ...