South Georgia is by far the largest island to get rid of animals that destroy native wildlife after being introduced deliberately or accidentally by people. Though rats and mice have done the most damage, cats, foxes, pigs, goats, deer, rabbits and other species have been targeted in the campaigns around the world.

　　South Georgia is seven times the size of New Zealand’s Campbell Island, currently the largest area ever killing rats. The successful war against Campbell Island rats was carded out in 2001 with 132 tons of poison dropped from five helicopters.

　　“New Zealand pioneered the techniques for ridding islands of rats and in fact our operation on South Georgia is based on New Zealand’s technology. ” says Martin. “Some New Zealanders will be helping our campaign, including our chief pilot, Peter Garden, who was also chief pilot for the projects at Campbell Island and Rat Island, in the Aleutian chain of the north Pacific. ”

　　The second and third stages in 2016 and 2016 will involve dropping as much as 300 tons of poison from the air onto every part of the island where rats might live. It is a huge operation, carried out during the stormy southern autumn when the rats are hungry and the risks of poisoning native wildlife are less than in the spring and summer months. “Ideally we’d do it in winter but the weather makes that too risky, ” Martin says.

　　The ecological payback will be priceless. But Martin says. “The full benefits will take decades to arrive，because some of these birds are very slow to hatch. ”(370W)

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