If you need an example of nature being more resilient than we could ever hope to be, look no further than the land in the Indian Ocean that most Americans may not even have heard of: D'Arros Island, Seychelles. Roughly 0.8 square miles of land surrounded by turquoise waters, this place was completely overrun with invasive rats until 2003, which were slowly decimating an entire seabird population. Then the rats vanished, and the birds did something nobody may have anticipated: they thrived in the newfound peace.
