The concept of biological control often sounds perfect in a boardroom. When a place is struggling with a dangerous or damaging species, it looks easy just to bring in a predator to reduce their ...

Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that non-native mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in the country's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. Amami-Oshima is ...

Japan has wiped out all mongooses on a subtropical island, officials said, after the animals ignored the venomous snakes they were brought in to hunt and preyed on endangered local rabbits instead.

About 30 of the venom-resistant predators were released on Amami Oshima, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in the late 1970s to keep down the population of habu, a pit viper whose bite can be deadly to ...

Rabbits only live on Amami Oshima and one other island and are listed as endangered Tokyo: Japan has wiped out all mongooses on a subtropical island, officials said, after the animals ignored the ...