Seacow Island
| Seacow Island | |
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| Location: | 5°25’27"S, 71°49’48"E |
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| Population: | 0 |
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Seacow Island, otherwise called Île Vache Marine, is a small coral island in the south of Peros Banhos, a coral ring atoll in the British Indian Ocean Territory.
From 2014, the Chagos Conservation Trust carried out a rat eradication programme, to remove invasive black rats from Seacow Island. Île Vache Marine was declared rat-free in 2017 after two years passed with no sign of rats.[1][2]
References
- ↑ 'First successful invasive rat eradication in the Chagos Archipelago': Chagos Conservation Trust News 10 April 2017
- ↑ Darwin Initiative Final Report on DPlus 011 Île Vache Marine Restoration Project 16 February 2017
| Peros Banhos in the British Indian Ocean Territory |
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Île Manoël •
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