42 tons of poison to be dumped on island to eradicate rats

Its this type of poor journalism that gives scientists a bad rap. Its NOT 42 tons of poison, it IS 42 tons of bait which will include 840 GRAMS of poison. Mr. Nelson practiced poor journalism to paint an untrue image of indiscriminate spraying. Check your facts Mr. Nelson read the plan yourself at .... More

There has to be another solution, this is negligent destruction, an easy way.

What about all the plants and habitation. If this chemical messes up the plants then they die or could die and then the whole vegetation will be affected and could effect the growth of plants in that habitat. Insects are one. What kind of damn poison are they talking about. **** it still on earth let the population of rats deal with themselves. What about the air. Thats like years of carbon monixide build up in atlanta all at one time. I sure hope this **** doesn't effect the atsmophere. That .... More

Also this article is a bit misleading as it makes it sound like they'll be just spraying poison all over the place. The poison is actually placed in traps that are dropped in a grid pattern over the island. Of course, rats that escape the traps before death will be hazardous to any dog that eats them, but the island has a leash law.

I don't like killing critters without a good reason but there are 2 things that always need to die,bugs and rats. I hope this experiment works so well they do it everywhere in the world that's infested. The only live rats in the whole world should be in laboratories waiting to be cut to pieces.

So they are going to kill all the native insects as well? Sounds like these people are on drugs. What a dumb idea.

this a great first step, but does not go far enough. this island is too important to let ANY species threaten it. they should be dropping much more poisonous chemicals, more frequently, and without giving anyone any protection. then they will have the completely sterile wasteland which they so desire.

*and no people would ever be allowed back. EVAR

Must be a better way to trap the rats, by fermones or something, then bio-gas the corpses into compressible bottled gas and top soil building sludge, and a fertilizing effluent free of poisons? Straight-forward poisoning seems to simplistic, but possibly the fastest solution. Who or what will deal with all the decaying, and poisonous rat corpses? Seems a shame to waste a potentially valuable resource flow? Even China grows algae in sewage ponds to feed the Carp they sell to American markets..... More

while I can see the need for getting the rat population stopped .. Why not you sterilization.How in the world do you capture the birds? and other wild life.? And what about the shock tho their systems being in cages?
And one very important population HUMANS. This is not a good plan.