This Government Report Suggests 49 Ways To Kill An Entire Island Of Rodents

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South Farallon Islands.

The South Farallon Islands has a big rodent problem. It has recently become the most rodent-dense island in the world. 

And the U.S. Government had 49 possible solutions. Deadly solutions. 

Every acre of the island, which lies 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco, contains 500 European house mice. The island isn't inhabited by humans, but those who visit to study the island's ecosystem say that things have gotten so bad that the ground often seems to be moving.

It's not only creepy, but it's dangerous to the native ecosystem and threatens the native animals, specifically the ashy storm-petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa) and the Leach’s storm-petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa).