last extinction was the Lord Howe Island Boobook Owl, last heard in the 1950's. Going ratting...Christo Haseldon, a ranger with the Lord Howe Island Board, and Sue Bower, a flora management officer, on top of Mount Gower. The Lord Howe Island Board has made the decision to proceed to the implementation stage of the Lord Howe Island Rodent Eradication Project to eradicate invasive rats and mice from World Heritage listed Lord Howe Island. Lord Howe Island skink This species is found on Norfolk and Lord Howe Island. A spokesperson for the Lord Howe Island board says the proposed rodent eradication program is aimed at eliminating invasive rats and mice from Lord Howe Island … Lord Howe Island could soon be declared a rodent-free zone, as a controversial baiting program comes to an end. After a ship wrecked on Lord Howe Island, a rat population invaded and eradicated a species of giant stick insect—or so researchers thought. Photo Islanders say Currawongs will eat "anything and everything". Introduced rats have reduced its numbers greatly on the main Lord Howe Island, and it manages to survive in places it can hide from rats; for example amongst boulders on some coastal areas.

It's thought mice first appeared on Lord Howe Island around 1850, and the rats came later, after escaping from a sinking ship off the coast in 1918. Photo The Lord Howe Island Woodhen population was once reduced to about 30. The plan for fighting extinction At the time of their rediscovery, very little was known about Lord Howe Island Stick Insects.

3 Responses to “Lord Howe Island rat eradication – restoring the prestige of an island paradise” Save LHI 23 February, 2017 at 10:20 pm Senestech a company with … Lord Howe Island, where a long-debated baiting scheme to eradicate rats and mice is finally under way. Lord Howe Island to Go Ahead With Rodent Eradication Program. ABC News: Mridula Amin.

The Lord Howe Island Rodent Eradication Program (LHI REP) aims to eradicate introduced rodents: the Ship Rat (Rattus rattus) and the House Mouse (Mus musculus) from Lord Howe Island (LHI) and its associated islands and rocky islets (excluding Balls Pyramid), hereafter referred to as the Lord Howe Island Group (LHIG). Photograph: Patrick Keneally/The Guardian F or … Photo The Lord Howe Island Woodhen population was once reduced to about 30.
The Lord Howe Island Board has made the decision to proceed to the implementation stage of the Lord Howe Island Rodent Eradication Project to eradicate invasive rats and mice from World Heritage listed Lord Howe Island. Black rats are thought to have caused the extinction of five species of bird and 13 invertebrates on Lord Howe Island. A radical plan to rid Lord Howe Island of a rat plague by aerial baiting has split the community with tourists warned against eating fish and plans to pour milk from the island…

Lord Howe Island’s isolation and its varied landscape are home to many unique and endemic species, including 241 species of indigenous plants, almost 50% of which are found nowhere else in the world, 207 species of bird, including the endangered Lord Howe Island Woodhen, and 1,600 terrestrial insect species, including the world’s rarest insect, the Lord Howe Island Phasmid. Lord Howe Island could soon be declared a rodent-free zone, as a controversial baiting program comes to an end. Lord Howe Island to Go Ahead With Rodent Eradication Program. An historic decision has been made for Australia’s World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island, they are going to get rid of the rats. islandconservation.org Endangered Woodhens on Lord Howe Island have been reintroduced to the wild. Endemic birds are thriving on Lord Howe Island after the Island’s biggest conservation project, eradicating invasive mice and rats. Photo Islanders say Currawongs will eat "anything and everything". Seven land bird species managed to survive the rats- The Emerald Ground Dove, Sacred Kingfisher, Buff Banded Landrail, two endemic species - the Woodhen and the Lord Howe Island White-eye; and two endemic subspecies - the Lord Howe Island Currawong and the
It's thought mice first appeared on Lord Howe Island around 1850, and the rats came later, after escaping from a sinking ship off the coast in 1918.

The colony on Lord Howe Island numbered in the thousands at the time of the island's discovery in 1788, but has declined to under 500 pairs—mostly on offshore islets with the remainder on two hard-to-access headlands—by 2005. ABC News: Mridula Amin. ABC News: Mridula Amin.

Black ship rats have caused the extinction of at least five bird species and 13 invertebrates on Lord Howe Island - a 10km long curved island that sits in between Australia and New Zealand. ABC News: Mridula Amin.