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Good to know that a few Selmunett lizards are still around - so not all may be lost after all - hopefully attempts to eradicate rats will be successful and the population will recover
It should not be impossible to eradicate the rat population on Selmunett, contrary to impressions except in "bountiful" locations rats are not that numerous in terms of number/area, and warfarin based poisons are still highly effective. I hazard a guess that it only takes about Lm25-Lm50 worth of poison to clear up the area.
I guess they really party when some dirty jerk drops comes to Selmunett and leaves their trash behind, but this must be rather uncommon outside of the summer months. Which is why they turn to eating anything they can find when the going gets tough.
Although rats are very good swimmers however it is unlikely they would deliberately journey across the 50 or whatever metres that separate the island from the mainland, more likely if they fell off the cliffs into the sea and maybe by wave action they decided to swim the "wrong" way.
Yes, rats are probably somewhat like me - they can swim but would rather not unless they have to.
Yes it should be possible to eradicate rats - it has been done on various small islands - the greater problem seems to be to eradicate the messy human rats that leave rubbish about during the summer months.
I only can repeat what I`ve said on Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:21 am
May be you Maltese should follow (in this case!) the USA: but instead of"adopt a highway" you could use "adopt a square meter"...
