Canada Declares War on Rats
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
VANCOUVER--"I have a freezer full of dead rats," says Laurie Wein, project manager at Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve in western Canada. It's a necessary evil, for the restoration specialist leading Parks Canada's war on rats in the biodiverse archipelago of Haida Gwaii (or the Queen Charlotte Islands). "Invasive species here on Haida Gwaii are the number-one threat to ecosystem functioning." [More]