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South Georgia Island Has Finally Been Certified Free Of Swarms Of Rats That Feasted On Rare Birds
The mostly abandoned town of Grytviken on South Georgia island. Cropped from original panorama. Exterminators have successfully cleansed the remote British overseas territory of South Georgia island in the South Atlantic of invasive rats that, since the year 1775, had been feasting on the eggs and chicks of two species of birds found nowhere else…