Tanaka Isson, an artist known as Japan's "Gauguin," moved to the subtropical island of Amami Oshima at the age of 50 after years of struggle. He then spent highly productive years there painting ...

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Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that non-native mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in the country's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. Amami-Oshima is ...

3 it has eliminated all invasive mongooses from Amami-Oshima island here, describing the eradication program as a “worldwide unprecedented achievement in protecting biodiversity.” For years ...

Water from the falls, situated on the eastern coast of Amami-Oshima island here, tumbles 181 meters down a mountain cliff into the Pacific, the city government said Sept. 10 when it posted an ...

The Environment Ministry on Tuesday declared the eradication of nonnative mongooses on Amami-Oshima island, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site in Kagoshima Prefecture. The declaration was based ...

(Photo courtesy of Environment Ministry)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday declared mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in southwestern Japan ...

The rabbits only live on Amami Oshima and one other island and are listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list. The mongoose population had exploded ...

were first detected early on Sunday approximately 55 miles east of Amami Oshima island, southwest Japan, according to the Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry in Tokyo. About two hours later ...

Suetsugu and Hashiwaki observed feeding marks on Balanophora yuwanensis plants on Amami-Oshima Island in Japan, which they suspected were made by the Amami rabbit. To investigate this hypothesis ...

Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday declared mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in southwestern Japan, decades after launching efforts to eliminate the invasive species that ...