In 1985, peoples solution to everything was a ferret. what were they thinking, smh

they're irish, why you surprised

@@astroboirap governed by the UK

​@@astroboirap racist much?

Couldn't we ship in some honey badgers? They'd kill all the ferrets and rats.

New Zealand have eradicated predators from many islands for decades now , starting with Otata , Kāpiti and Stephen’s Islands in the 1920s In the 1950s and 60's eradication became more extensive and there are now mainland reserves that have become predator free. The program you refer to as starting, is the entire country has a target to become predator free by 2050. New Zealand encompasses an area 23,910 km² larger than the British Islands (The British Isles excluding The Republic Of Ireland)

Too right, mine would have a field day👍

Not sure how a Jack Russell would do on a cliff face.

​@@sukotu23 Jack Russells on a bungee harness! Cliff diving for rats. They could probably pay for the program with the video rights.

And birds and eggs too 🙄 terriers just kill anything smaller than themselves. They'd guzzle clicks and eggs like candy

How much poison will get washed into the sea, potentially harming the marine life? There’s so many ways that this could go wrong - again!

Dinosaurs got extinct because Aliens added humans.

Rather like the song. I know an old lady who swallowed a fly.

​@@priscillaroberts7945 Yes! Introduce old ladies!

@@Wotsitorlabart 😂 this comment section made my Saturday morning before getting up lol

Bobcats kill more birds than ferret

Do you have colonies of domestic ferrets in NZ?

Here's THE BIGGEST mistake of the past - human beings. This is a god-awful plan & needs to be changed.

Two introduced species.

Eliminating a native species is also pretty good at unbalancing an equilibrium. Take the elimination of the European beaver as an example.

Like humans you mean?

"LUDWIG! Have you seen the sugar bowl?" "I don't care about the sugar bowl. I am trying to write this symphony!". I think the RSPB on Rathlin Island need to contact Colin Mozart, the ratcatcher.

It's 60 days for the team to lay 16 tonnes of poison.

I don't think so, he says up to 16 tons, and he says at the end of the 60 days the rats should be gone. Let's give you the benefit of the doubt for a moment though. That would be 205g of bait per trap, per day, every day for 60 full days. That amount of bait would require each trap to catch 41 rats per day. That too sounds unreasonable

@@tjmarx I agree, 60 days sounds like a fraction of the time they'll need

Why would they mention “bird poop”...?

The emu wars😂

What is that even supposed to mean..🤷‍♂️

They are supposed to incinerate them.

Where 😂

@@acorncs literally anywhere where there is no other wildlife that will get wiped out by them.

@@SnugglesPlays like where? They are rats and ferrets, they eat other animals?

Send me your address and I'll get them all shipped to you to look after. Give a ferret and a rat a hug.

When are you in to take that delivery? 😂

Yeah I think maybe someone cocked up and introduced polecats.

and just like the ferrets they'd get bored of targeting rats so they'd literally turn their sights to the birds. 🤣

Not necessarily, if they are sensible and get why they are doing it, and what for, maybe not. I did shooting as a kid, never shot an animal, just cardboard👍

The attrition rate of death by cliff-selfie misadventure would be too high....

Depends on the brand of poison that they’re using. Some poisons are more harmful to other species than other poisons.

No.

​@@debbiehenri345 Thank you. Im guessing just an NI accent.

Sorry to correct you Debbie but i do have a Scottish accent. Diluted by 20 years in Irelandbut im hanging on! 😂

Those are govt. and BBc types. Rathlin is indeed Irish

@@seasickdave So where are the Irish people?

No. Introducing new species to deal with the previous ones is a recipe for trouble. Because once the rats and ferrets get scarce or too hard to hunt the predator birds will start hunting the puffins too. Then you have rats and ferrets and owls and hawks ripping into the puffins. Eradication programs work best with least spill over with targeted traps and baits or paid hunters. We have had success with possums and deer here in NZ by putting out bounties and giving hunters heavier weapons and mobility aids. Deer were driven out of many areas by hunters in helicopters with automatic rifles and parks in various cities have been cleared at night by hunters with small calibre rifles and spotlights working in conjunction with council workers setting traps in the day time.

@@kaymish6178 except birds have a tendency to just fly away when food is scarce.

@@briitash That kind of misses the point. The aim is to protect the puffins from getting wiped out by predators; not fattening up a bunch of hawks and owls that can then fly away when all the puffins have been eaten.

You are making the same mistake as the fool who introduced the ferrets. Any predator will also hunt the protected species.

Ferrets will kill cats and cats are also majorly invasive species and cause havoc on any bird populations.

Why?

@@hetrodoxly1203some seem to think he’s a lying rat maybe?

@@kevinthepilgrim5441 I like rats, I agree they have to be controlled, whoever released ferrets knew nothing about them, a female rat with young won't back off from a ferret and will give it a good fight, many ferrets refuse to work rats, ferrets have been domesticate for over a 1000 years, their job is to bolt rabbits from warrens, without a net of dog to catch fleeing animals they're of little use, even stranger they don't survive in the wild, the instinct to form a territory and living burrow as been bred out of them, the, just endlessly wonder, something isn't right about this story, why bring politics into it.

There are too many cats killing too many birds

@@run2cat4run this is a really tough job... I wonder what predator can help reduce those numbers...

@@roni2977 What about The Predator? (not the terrible film from 2018)

@@roni2977 human

If foxes are a natural part of the island's ecology, then they should stay. If seagulls are a natural part of the island's ecology, then they should stay. If locals are responsible with their dogs, then they shouldn't be reprimanded for having them. I am sure that if there were problems with locals deliberately allowing dogs to menace and kill Puffins, then the local authorities will have words or start instilling rules like fines for not keeping dogs on leashes and not allowing clifftop walks during the breeding season. Cats - I'm all in favour of making sure those creatures are removed from all sensitive environments. Seems to me that most cat owners are quite content to let their pets just go out and kill anything they want. They should be de-clawed and have all 4 canine teeth removed at the very least.

A 'rat sanctuary' ?. First time I've ever heard of that, lol.

No. Nature is all the animals, plants, and other things in the world that are not made by people, and all the events and processes that are not caused by people. It was people that introduced rats and ferrets to the island. By definition, this is not nature.

Really...why? Just curios,what do you think the word “woke” means..?

WTF is wrong with you? Seriously

Don't think there are cats on the island!!!

Yep time's up for any cannibal rats or scavenging ferrets.

Snakes eat chicks too.

@@andrewjones-productions not if the mongoose eats the snake first

@@reallymakesyouthink what if the mongeeses like bird eggs?!?

@@stephenwalker2924 This may cause a problem

It’s Ireland mate,not Australia...what kind of snake do you imagine would eat rats on an island with that climate..?

aye that sums Brexit Britain up alright. grim nowhere dump.

The UK isn't that bad...yet.

You can't rehome 'wild' ferrets. They're not going to settle down with humans after they've been living free for years. They will be unhappy with suddenly being restrained and you don't want your fingers near an angry ferret that's had its freedom removed. When there are more than enough ferrets already requiring homes online, no one is going to spend time and money trying to rehabilitate 150 wild ferrets. It's not fair, but they have to be destroyed.

So let them died off?

@@run2cat4run puffins are delicacy there, why not complete ban on puffin hunting ? Why interfere in nature and eradicate other species? Can't they control there taste buds for a few years ? Inb4 i am not a vegan.

No puffins aren't a delicacy in northern ireland AFAIK

It’s already been done on several New Zealand islands. Its totally possible and not that expensive when compared to the extinction of a species

They most certainly do not eat Puffins on Rathlin. You wouldn't even be able to get to them.

Humans interfered in the first instance did they not ?

Because we gotta fix the mess we made in the first place.

No,the rat poison is for the rats.

At least beavers know where to build their homes unlike people 🦫