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 Department of Environment,  Climate Change & Emergency Management (DECEM),  FSM

Enhancing the biosecurity of Pohnpei’s island ecosystems by putting together efforts to eradicate rats

 Department of Environment,  Tuvalu

Rats are invasive species in Tuvalu. Rattus rattus, or black rats, are rampaging through Tuvalu’s atolls and gnawing through the country’s chief export crop – coconuts. This dataset contains a brief introduction into a project that was implemented by a locally-recruited retired rodent management expert who showed coconut farmers how to dispose of the rats in an environmentally-friendly manner.