Rats wrought ecological havoc on Australia’s Lord Howe Island for more than a century before they were eradicated in 2019. An estimated 300,000 rats and mice, including this mummified rat, were ...

People on Lord Howe Island are trying to save their slice of paradise from a rat infestation, but a controversial eradication program has divided families and friends on the tiny outpost 600km off ...

Rare and endangered animals are often hidden away in hard-to-reach locations and might require trekking through a jungle or ...

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 ...

Australia’s Lord Howe Island could attract many tourists to its lush mountains, perfect beaches and blue waters. Instead, it has strict rules to deter all but a few.

For years, scientists thought that the Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct, the subject of predation by invasive rats on the remote island off Australia, but then a few were discovered on a ...

Invasive rats "originally extirpated them from Lord Howe Island," but the folks down under have been rat-catching "diligently" since 2019, and many species have experienced a period of renewal on ...

Animals pushed to the brink of extinction by rats have been brought back to life on Lord Howe Island, with some bird populations doubling in number within 12 months of the extermination of the ...

For years, scientists thought that the Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct, the subject of predation by invasive rats on the remote island off Australia, but then a few were discovered on a ...