its 150 the above sea level it's covered with
this vegetation there are still many species have plans to be discovered on
the sound for me this place is
is gonna be awesome I know it is you know can here on earth
Anderson Island upon the plateau
sly about a hundred feet above sea level the stir
hard coral made up here
this coral is like razor-sharp
his place like walking through a mountain a broken glass
menu you are dealing with is very dense vegetation
it's practically primeval
living example Ivan ancient world
UNESCO designated hitter simple World Heritage Site
because it's rare native birds like Craig's
and fruit does
but noun they're at risk threatened by an invasive predator
the Polynesian rat was brought by Polynesians
to almost every island in the Pacific and one other things they eat is young
birds and they're extremely gracious
and we've had a the ratification on Henderson just months previous to our
arrival
a team and exterminators spread rat poison across the island
Mikes big question is if it worked
their objective was to get rid of a 100 percent of the rats on this island
and not kill all the endemic creeks our objective here is to
see if the cracks are still around and see if we see no arrests
and then all suddenly see this little black thing like slash
neck week Creek
hey on a path to take
square bar
said picky so it looks like a chicken
its kind in acting like a chicken but it's this little
flightless bird in the middle the Pacific Ocean you're looking at it
so how did he get there
he's flightless is in the middle of the ocean you know crazy little burned his
critics are about the coolest
little the animals under siege Michael gnomes in the forests
connects between 10 minutes chicken d done
Mike phase seen something moving the thick brush nice
Iraq
I have some mixture and I see iraq you think
rat and all that all you've seen is fleeting