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 ...
Environment News Service

Toxic Mice Latest Weapon Against Guam’s Brown Tree Snakes

These snakes were captured by hand in one night on Guam. (Photo courtesy USGS) HONOLULU, Hawaii, February 24, 2013 (ENS) – The federal government is preparing to drop dead mice laced with a snake ...

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 ...
Stars and Stripes

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 ...
The Washington Post

Snake's Impact on Guam Appears to Extend to Flora

One of the most infamous examples of what can happen when a nonnative species is introduced into a new environment involves the brown tree snake -- a voracious, semi-venomous species that in less than ...
AOL

Elusive Invader: Guam’s Brown Tree Snake Problem

The island of Guam has a snake problem. Though innocuous enough in appearance – slender with brownish or greenish coloration and large eyes – brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) have single-handedly ...
EurekAlert!

Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds

In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many ...
USA Today

Invasive brown tree snake found on Cocos Island

An invasive brown tree snake population has been found on Cocos Island, an 83.1 acre atoll located 1.5 miles off the southwest coast of Guam. The brown tree snake was a major contributor to the loss ...

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 ...
Forbes

How A WWII Snake Drove 10+ Species Extinct In Just A Few Years—Most Were Birds

There’s millions of invasive snakes on this tiny island, where they were accidentally introduced during World War II. Since then, they have devastated biodiversity, human health and the economy. There ...
AOL

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 ...