‘It’s a monster task’: can culling ferrets and rats save one of the UK’s largest seabird colonies? The dramatic sea cliffs, crags and stacks of Rathlin Island, county Antrim, rise more than 200 metres above the Atlantic Ocean and host one of the UK’s largest seabird colonies, including hundreds of endangered puffins, attracting up to 20,000 birders and tourists a year. On a spectacularly sunny day in September, the cliff faces are […] https://focusingonwildlife.com/news/its-a-monster-task-can-culling-ferrets-and-rats-save-one-of-the-uks-largest-seabird-colonies/