abel crump brown tree snake

By cfawcett

  • the lacey act

    Congress passed the landmark Lacey Act in 1900 to ban the illegal trafficking of fish and wildlife. In 2008, the Lacey Act was amended to extend its protections to plants and plant products, including timber. Today, the multiple U.S. government agencies including U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of Justice, through its Environmental and Natural Resources Division, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and others enforce the Lacey Act.

  • the brown snake

    Shortly after World War II, and before 1952, the brown tree snake was accidentally transported from its native range in the South Pacific, probably as a stowaway in ship cargo.

  • today

    putting poison in rats and putting the rats in the wild and the snake eats them and the snakes die.