Prickly Pear Marine Park management project. Part of this project involved a rat eradication programme. This involved positioning 435 temporary bait stations (made of plastic water bottles donated by the Anguilla community) across Prickly Pear East and West. This work began in March 2018,  Interspersed amongst the bait stations were 870 monitoring points. Both bait and non-toxic wax monitoring blocks were checked daily for signs of rats. While baiting and monitoring of the cays took place over a period of eight weeks to ensure that every rat had in fact been removed, there were no signs of rats after 21 days of the eradication operation. Monitoring for signs of rats will continue.