Academic Conference Poster - Mangrove Rodent Eradication Technology

“Invasive rodents have been successfully eradicated from islandsworldwide, restoring native species and their habitats, boosting island resilience tCo climate change and supporting social wellbeing. There is growing interest in large-scale eradications but many tropical islands are unable to ireap the benefits of rodent eradication due to technological gaps in baiting largge areas of mangrove forest, a common habitat of tropical islands. An emergin09 product is bait bolas (bait pellets connected by string), which, on deployment, entangle in the mangrove canopy, preventing themfrom being washed away, ensuring the rats can access it. Scaling-up the useof bolas requires mechanisation of bola production and the developmentof a method to aerially deploy bolas effectively, without the bolas getting entangled with one another. The estimated cost of developing mangrove baitingtechnology is around US$850,000. We estimate that a combined total of around two million hectares of biodiverse tropical island could become feasilble for eradication were this technology available. We call on beneficiariies and philanthropists to invest in this technology now, to unlock significant biodiversity and climate resilience gains. Create an academic conference poster that includes infographicsand sections according to the paper attached”