Call for ideas to save Easter Island!
Call for ideas to save Easter Island! The other day I got an email from a friend who is staying in Easter Island. After reading his message, if you happen to have a cool idea for this problem, please tell us! I will write my ideas at the end of this post too. With the increase of tourists and garbage in Easter Islandmany many huge rats have emerged. Scientists today have found out that one of the main reasons why Easter Island people almost diminished from the Island in the past was because of rats, so this is a very serious problem. What were you doing everybody? By all means please let me know. Easter ideas could change the future of it.
The rats stopped eating from the garbage cans and are invading the farms around the island. Sweet potatoes and carrots, it's an all-you-can-eat feats for the rats now.
To stop this, farmers started making traps to kill the rats, and were able to trap 20 of them. They were all happy for a while, but after 1 week, the traps were all broken by the rats, and they know now how to evade them.
The all-you-can-eat feast has started again for the ever growing population of rats.
There are no damages done to the health of the islanders so the City and Government have not acted upon it, but if they do, they might use a lot of poison to kill the rats, which is making the farmers uneasy
because a lot of dangerous bacteria would spur out of the poisoned rat's bodies. Besides that, the poison would also contaminate the earth and damage the crops even more. Easter Island is very small so they have to be extra careful on how they maintaintheir land fertile.
Farmers are trying to kill the rats by raising many cats, but the rats are as big as the cats so this "cute" idea won't work.
So I ask you this:If you have an interesting idea that could save the island from the rats, please contact me so we can work on it.
We will be waiting with faith for a good solution. Ideas
Very nice idea! I think there was a similar program in Okinawa or Hiroshima called "Snakes for Money"





