About 800 miles north of Honolulu is an uninhabited 1000 acre island known as Laysan. In 1884 a entrepreneur introduced rabbits to the islands to sell for their meat. Within 10 years the rabbits had multiplied so quickly that nearly all the vegetation on the island was gone. This cause the extinction of most of the native plant and animals species. Today the rabbits have been removed and the island is a wildlife sanctuary.
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