The turning point was the mysterious appearance of rabbits on Ynys Seriol (Puffin Island), which lies off south-east Anglesey ...

The last rat on Tromelin Island—a small teardrop of scrubby sand in the western Indian Ocean near Madagascar—was killed in 2005. Rats had lived on the island for hundreds of rat generations. The ...

A tiny, East River island that disappears at high tide went up for sale two weeks ago and sold on Sunday to a man who swims to it regularly and says he won't change anything but the name. That name, ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — We've all heard of buying a house, an apartment and a car. But an island? CBS 2′s Mark Morgan spoke with one City Island man, who can now see his new acquisition from his ...

For more than two decades, the Pribilof Islands have implemented a rat prevention program to keep the island rat-free. (John Ryan/KUCB) It may sound silly to outsiders, but for the remote Pribilof ...

Archipelago case-study shows that removing invasive rats and restoring native vegetation could help bring back hundreds of thousands of breeding pairs of seabirds lost to tropical islands Hundreds of ...