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Living on the wind-swept Ascension Island, lying as it does in the middle of the Atlantic with Britain 4,000 miles in one direction and the Falklands 4,000 miles in the other, the simple pleasure of an evening spent with a cat on your lap should not be underestimated. And thereby hangs a tale, a remarkable conservation success story that would rid the island of a marauding migrant horde. Rats stowed away on ships and came ashore, and cats were introduced to contain the rodents. Both found easy prey in the abundant seabird colonies and over the next 200 years brought some species to the brink of extinction. At the start of the millennium a plan was conceived to redress the balance. Adapted from the source document.