In 2005, French crews eradicated rats from Tromelin Island; by 2013, booby populations had more than doubled, and five seabird species later returned to breed

For centuries, rats on a tiny island in the western Indian Ocean had an outsized impact on its wildlife. They fed on seabird eggs and chicks, gradually reducing a once-diverse breeding community to just two species.

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