Non-Native Species Get Ass Kicked by New Zealand

File under "good news about the environment (if it's not too late already)." An exciting article about adventurous and glamourously-set pest-eradication efforts. These folks are clearing introduced rodents (rats and mice) from remote New Zealandy islands, using hi-tech methods like GPS to coat these islands just so with rat and mice poison. They go island to island - which all have non-native mice and rats, which were accidentally introduced in the Captain Cook days, one presumes. Each island is GPSed into a grid, and an airplane drops poison bait. Then teams go in and get all the nooks and crannies, to make sure every possible alien rodent on the island has access to the goods. I suppose it is concievable the mass use of rodent poison will eventually be shown to have an environmental effect, but them's the breaks in this case, it seems. These people are cleaning up someone else's mess; one can't fault them too much for using what's available, especially since they are being so effective. The introduced vermin feed on baby birds, and in the wake of vermin eradication, the native bird species are rebounding. Go New Zealand!