After Rats Were Eradicated From This Small Island, Seabirds Thrived Smithsonian Magazine May 28, 2024 The last rat on Tromelin Island—a small teardrop of scrubby sand in the western Indian Ocean near Madagascar—was killed in 2005. Rats had lived on the island, an overseas territory of France, for hundreds of rat generations. … Read More from After Rats Were Eradicated From This Small Island, Seabirds Thrived Read Article