US plan to control Guam's snake population with toxic mice angers Peta
Source: The Guardian
Animal rights activists have dismissed as "absurd" and "cruel" the American government's plans to bombard Guam from the air with toxic dead mice in a bid to curtail the spread of invasive snakes.
The US air drop over the the Pacific island is due to commence in the spring, and is aimed at addressing the problems caused by non-native brown tree snakes. Having hitched a ride to the island some 60 years ago on military ships, the colony of reptiles have been deemed responsible for killing off native bird species, biting human inhabitants and knocking out electricity by slithering onto power lines.
Meanwhile, in Hawaii – some 3,000 miles away – environmentalists fear a similar invasion from the snakes, possibly through unwitting transportation in aircraft that have spent time on Guam.
But the US Department of Agriculture's plans to reduce the number of brown tree snakes in Guam – population estimates reach up to 2m – have been attacked by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta).
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/24/us-guam-snakes-mice-peta
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the snakes ate all their eggs. 
Funny that you brought that up. The guy who wrote it came up with the idea for the movie after reading an article about brown tree snakes climbing into aircraft landing gear! The original version of the story had the plane being overrun by brown tree snakes that had climbed onto the aircraft before takeoff. It was revised later to include different snakes, and a generally different plot, but the Brown Tree Snake started it all.
And for cursing us with that alone, I feel little pity for this species
and then forced to survive on a foreign island."
...invasive species is never good idea. Looked what happened to North and South America!
But it's not true that they have no natural predator: MAN.
Likewise, it is my understanding that they're not only delicious but that they've decided to make lemonade from all these lemons and sell them back to the people in the countries where they came from to begin with.
- Maybe even hungry Americans might use a few.....
...to extinction, nor each other when no other fish are around. They're plankton eaters which is why they were brought here in the first place. Bad idea of course, but there you have it: Facts. They may eat other plankton-eating fish into extinction by out-eating them but not by having them for lunch. And still, they have no place in an eco-system that developed w/o them in it.
Asian carp have been a popular food fish in Asia for thousands of years. However, many people in North America associate all carp with common carp, a bottom-feeding, worse-tasting species that was introduced from Eurasia in the 1800's commonly not classified as food. The pearly white flesh - complicated by a series of bones - is said to taste like cod or described as tasting like a cross between scallops and crabmeat. They are low in mercury because they do not eat other fish. To make the fish more appealing to American consumers, the fish have been renamed silverfin or Kentucky tuna. Volunteer efforts to increase the popularity further include making and selling carp-based dishes and using the entrails to make fertilizer. Some have thought to collect the carp eggs for caviar, since one bighead carp was found with over 2 million eggs. Two million eggs from one fish could fill two jars of caviar, which would be quite valuable. This is only true, however, in the case of a fish from which people would eat eggs. As of now, there is no market for carp eggs in America, though there is a movement that is trying to increase the popularity of carp eggs in Europe. link - Apparently the people in the above video don't know what delicious tastes like either. Thank you for clearing things up for them.....
The brown tree snake has caused extensive economic and ecological damage to Guam. It is responsible for numerous power outages across the island each year.
The brown tree snake is an opportunistic feeder and has caused the extirpation or extinction of most of Guam’s native forest birds and lizards.
