A million mice are eating seabirds alive on a remote island. Conservationists have a plan

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Conservationists are hatching a plan to kill up to one million mice on the remote South Africa island of Marion, over fears that the invasive rodents could wipe out the seabirds that live there.

“They’re essentially eating them alive,” said Anton Wolfaardt, a conservation scientist in Cape Town and manager of the Mouse-Free Marion project (MFM). “[The birds] just sit there while swarms of mice often will kind of nibble away at them.”

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The project aims to drop bait laced with rodent poison all over the island, in a bid to eradicate every

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