Environmental insanity continues: Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes

They floated down from the sky Sunday — 2,000 mice, wafting on tiny cardboard parachutes over Andersen Air Force Base in the U.S. territory of Guam.
But the rodent commandos didn’t know they were on a mission: to help eradicate the brown tree snake, an invasive species that has caused millions of dollars in wildlife and commercial losses since it arrived a few decades ago.
That’s because they were dead. And pumped full of painkillers.
The unlikely invasion was the fourth and biggest rodent air assault so far, part of an $8 million U.S. program approved in February to eradicate the snakes and save the exotic native birds that are their snack food.

Environmental insanity continues: Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes 130222-guam-snake-5a.photoblog600

Environmental insanity continues: Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes 130222-guam-snake-5a.photoblog600

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Environmental insanity continues: Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes

Environmental insanity continues: Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes

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