More than 125 turn out in Guam to hunt the invasive snake blamed for bird losses and blackouts

Guam's fight against the brown tree snake drew more than 125 people to Gab Gab Beach for a workshop and nighttime hunt centered on one of the island's most destructive invasive species. The hands-on ...

Brown tree snakes reached Guam hidden in military cargo during World War II, and it triggered an ecological collapse that wiped out nearly all native birds and slashed tr…

An invasive snake that likely arrived on Guam hidden inside military cargo after the Second World War went on to transform ...
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Volunteers lend hands capturing invasive tree snakes at Air Force base on Guam

Volunteers on Guam recently caught 20 invasive brown tree snakes during a recent hunt and workship on Andersen Air Force Base ...

In the 1940s, a snake accidentally reached Guam after World War II, decades later, the island is still paying the price

For most of its history, Guam's forests developed without large tree-climbing snakes hunting birds in the canopy. Native wildlife adapted to an environment where many species nested with little need ...

Nearly extinct species coming back in wild thanks to Pittsburgh aviary

Two Guam kingfisher chicks that hatched at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh are part of a program to help restore the bird ...
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Elusive Invader: Guam’s Brown Tree Snake Problem

Brown tree snakes are invasive in Guam, depressing populations of native wildlife by eating lizards, birds, and small mammals. Introduced from ship cargos in the 1950s, these venomous snakes face no ...