“The breeding population of Peruvian diving petrels on Chile’s Choros Island has grown 7.5-fold since 2013, when invasive rabbits were eradicated from the island. Free from the rabbits, which had stripped the island’s vegetation and damaged the petrels’ burrows, the colony reached an estimated 90,000 breeding pairs in 2024, up from around 12,000 in 2013 and 300 in 1980.” So reports The Doomslayer.
Choros Island is a desert island, located near the driest non-polar desert on Earth, the Atacama Desert. It is home to threatened desert plants, cacti, and ground-nesting seabirds like the Peruvian diving-petrel and Humboldt penguins. It sits just off the coast of Punta Choros, a mainland fishing village bordered by the southern fringe of the Atacama Desert.
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