In 1958, 58 feral pigs were removed from Clipperton Island, helping a seabird colony grow from 650 to more than 137,000

• Image AI generatedIn 1958, Clipperton Island was a very different place from the huge seabird colony it would later become.
• The tiny Pacific atoll had once supported thousands of breeding birds, but decades of human occupation had left a heavy mark.
• Feral pigs, introduced when people settled on the island, had multiplied and were feeding on land crabs and disturbing nesting birds.