With the help of a predator-proof fence, hundreds of traps and poisoned-bait stations, Laysan albatrosses are flourishing at Kaena Point, the New York Times reports. 

The fine-mesh green fence zigzags about four-tenths of a mile, from the south coast to the north on Oahu’s westernmost spit of land. It is fitted with an overhang that lets rats climb out but not in. People enter through a two-door chamber, in which one door won’t open unless the other is closed.

What has resulted is a slow-motion explosion of life.

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