The island now hosts many non-native species, plus sheep, horses and goats, descendants of the livestock owned by ranchers who worked the island in the early 1900s. Hidden under their feet, however, ...

Easter Island's indigenous authorities have asked Chile's government to help them recover a unique monumental Moai statue removed 150 years ago and now kept in the British Museum in London. The 2. ...

Around 1400 the Easter Island palm became extinct due to overharvesting and as Hunt argues, Polynesian rats, which severely reduced the palm’s capacity to reproduce by eating its seeds.