180 Million Rats Must Die This Month To Save The Galapagos Islands

Agenda 21 in effect.

Quick somebody call in MONSANTO

I wonder if all the birds and scavenger animals that feed on the poisoned, dead rats will be killed, too? Won't that amount of dead rats spread nasty diseases of their own?

Fuck off fool. Rats are rats area rats all day long. What the fuck does Agenda 21 have to do with it, Like I said already Fuck Off Fool.

Better to have rats or every other species doing well. Idiot.

Some kind of sacrificial offering?

Maybe some PETA folks can adopt them as pets and save their little rat lives.

Wildlife officials love keeping wildlife on the edge of obliteration. Guaranteed tax funding, job security, industry growth, vacation and retirement pay is all dependent upon this worlds wildlife living on the edge of extinction. They do not fix problems, they maintain problems.

It is what government does best, take something simple, and complicate it.

The rats were introduced to the islands via ships. They are not an indigenous specie to the islands thus they have no natural predators to eliminate them or keep their population in check. They have flourished at the expense of the indigenous species. However, I am not certain poisen is a good idea as other species may also be poisened either directly or indirectly. Perhaps they could bring in a ship and lure the rats to ship with bait or the pied piper and his magic pipe. Just a thought.

Wow

Jump in , funny , like those birds.

Then what?

When the one rat per square foot population is gone, the hope is that native animals will repopulate.