St Agnes rat population wiped out
The rat population on St Agnes has been wiped out, nearly 300 years since they were first brought ashore by shipwrecks. And there's been an extraordinary change of fortune for the birds.
Traps were set for the rats a year ago
Last November a team of volunteers set traps for the rats. It was estimated there were 20,000 rats on the Scillies, 3,000 of them on St.Agnes and Gugh. Similar schemes had worked on other islands around the world.
Lydia Titterton is one of the volunteers monitoring the success of the scheme. She regularly checks the burrows where the chicks nest:
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