bald eagle

• Holly Doremus
• July 2, 2009

Killing rats kills eagles in Alaska

There really is no free lunch in the world of environmental restoration, and often the consequences are difficult to predict. Last month, Scientific American reported that 41 bald eagles were found dead on Rat Island in the western Aleutians after an aggressive rat extermination effort. Rat Island was so named because it had been overrun …

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