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Data from\u00a0Ulong\u00a0Island,\u00a0Koror Republic of\u00a0Palau\u00a0shows\u00a0that seabirds are returning, nutrients are moving from land to sea, and nearby reefs are beginning to rebound just one year after invasive rats were removed, providing\u00a0evidence that holistic island restoration can deliver benefits to coral reef ecosystems far sooner than previously understood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This\u00a0research, conducted\u00a0as part of the\u00a0Island-Ocean Connection Challenge\u00a0(IOCC), is the\u00a0world\u2019s\u00a0first\u00a0experimental\u00a0study\u00a0demonstrating\u00a0that\u00a0seabird recovery\u00a0following\u00a0invasive rodent removal drives nutrient transfer from land to reef, confirming prior\u00a0observational\u00a0findings\u00a0that restored islands\u00a0benefit\u00a0their surrounding ecosystems.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing measurable ecological change just one year after restoration is extraordinary,\u201d said\u00a0Coral Wolf, Conservation Impact Program Manager at\u00a0Island Conservation. \u201cIt\u00a0demonstrates\u00a0the power of local leadership and science working together to heal island ecosystems from ridge to reef.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Island\u00a0Conservation and Scripps Institution of Oceanography\u00a0at UC San\u00a0Diego\u00a0monitored\u00a0Ulong\u00a0Island before and after the operation on land and in the sea to track seabirds, nutrients, reef fishes, and benthic communities. The\u00a0IOCC\u00a0is a\u00a0volunteer collective founded by\u00a0Island Conservation,\u00a0Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and\u00a0Re:wild\u00a0to restore and rewild 40 globally significant island-ocean ecosystems by 2030,\u00a0one of which is\u00a0Ulong.\u00a0The IOCC aims to\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0the connections between healthy islands and healthy oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article Content Data from\u00a0Ulong\u00a0Island,\u00a0Koror Republic of\u00a0Palau\u00a0shows\u00a0that seabirds are returning, nutrients are moving from land to sea, and nearby…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,82],"class_list":["post-489805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}