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Invasive Species: Hawaii & Guam

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  • Tumon Bay, U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands. Many of the palm trees were damaged by a recent typhoon.
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  • The parade for the patron saint of the village of Malojloj on the South Island, U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands..
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  • Old transformer turned into a suggestion and payments box for the power company on the U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands. Dead brown tree snakes are draped on it..There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. Hungry egg-eating tree snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. These snakes were electrocuted causing a power outage from 1 to 7 AM on May 19.
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  • Earl Cambell's brown tree snake research site in jungle area near Andersen Air Force Base. Snakes are trapped, tagged, sexed, measured, weighed and released..U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands..There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • A brown tree snake on the branch of a tree in the U.S. Territory of Guam, an island in the Western Pacific Ocean, the largest of the Mariana Islands.  There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • Guam airport. Jack Russel Terrier searching, sniffing for brown tree snakes in the freight section of the airport. They want to keep the snakes from spreading to other islands or the mainland USA. There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • Guam; Earl Campbell's brown tree snake research in a jungle area near Andersen Air Force Base. Snakes trapped, tagged, sexed, measured, weighed and released. . There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines.
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child: every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..MODEL RELEASED..
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child:every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child:every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. .There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it..
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  • Brown tree snake in bed with a very young sleeping child: every parent's worst fear. photo illustration. There are no birds on the Pacific Island of Guam thanks to the Brown Tree Snake. These hungry egg-eating snakes have overrun the tropical island after arriving on a lumber freighter from New Guinea during World War II. Besides wiping out the bird population, Brown Tree Snakes cause frequent power outages: they commit short circuit suicide when climbing between power lines. They invade people's homes through the smallest openings. They have emerged from toilets. And they love the smell of babies. Several sleeping infants have been injured by the snake trying to swallow an arm or a leg...For this photo, an expert researcher and handler of brown tree snakes placed a brown tree snake that had been in a refrigerator to restrict its movement (cold blooded animals do not move much when they are chilled) on the bed with the sleeping child and monitored its movement as it warmed up. As it warmed up, the snake sensed the baby's breath and started to move toward it.
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  • Gary Wiles, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Wildlife Resources with a Mariana fruit bat clinging to his shirt. The Mariana fruit bat - a medium-sized bat found only in Guam and the Commonwealth of.the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) - has been reclassified from endangered to threatened status on Guam and newly listed as threatened in the CNMI (as of 2005).  (MODEL RELEASED).
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  • Kamakou Preserve rain forest, Molokai, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Chinese bamboo overtaking native forest near Hana at Kipahulu, Maui, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Miconea, an invasive weed near Hana, Maui, Hawaii. USA. Miconia has taken over large sections of mountainous forest near Hana on Maui. These plants ?escaped? from a nursery where they were sold as ornamental landscaping plants..
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  • Waimoku Falls at Kipahulu, Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Miconea, an invasive weed, has taken over large sections of mountainous forest near Hana on Maui. These plants "escaped" from a nursery where they were sold as ornamental landscaping plants. Near Hana, Maui, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Miconia, an invasive weed, has taken over large sections of mountainous forest near Hana on Maui. These plants "escaped" from a nursery where they were sold as ornamental landscaping plants. Near Hana, Maui, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Kahili Ginger is an invasive weed that has taken over large sections of rain forest, crowding out native ferns..Volcano National Park, Big Island, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Chinese bamboo overtaking native forest near Hana at Kipahulu. Maui, Hawaii. USA.
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  • Rainforest "weedbuster" Bob Mattos chopping & applying herbicide to invasive weeds; Kahili Ginger. Volcano National Park Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rainforest "weedbusters" chop & apply herbicide to invasive weeds. The ?weedbusters? of Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii defend the park from the most vexatious invasive plants (Chris Zimmer and Lowell Thomas, rear; Kim Tavares and Bob Mattos, front). They are National Park employees who use machetes and weed killing chemicals to rid sections of forest of non-native invasive plants such as Kahili Ginger, Banana Poka, and Kikuyu (African grass)..Volcano National Park, Big Island, Hawaii. USA. MODEL RELEASED..
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  • US department of agriculture Jonathan Saito with beagle, Joice, checking a Northwest Airlines flight from Guam for brown tree snakes. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. USA.
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  • US department of agriculture Mike Smith with beagle, Cagney, sniffs luggage from arrivals from Asia for fruit, vegetables and meat. Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. USA.
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