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Rat eradication project gets underway in the Cooks

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Rat bait containing anticoagulant poison being used to eradicate rats from South Georgia.

A major rat eradication project is underway on an uninhabited island in the Cook Islands.  Photo: South Georgia Heritage Trust

A team sailed out to the island over the weekend with 50 buckets of rat bait to begin the operation. 

RNZ Pacific's Tiana Haxton has more.