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Japan’s Historic Mistake that Turned a Harmless Animal Into a Plague: It Took 30 Years to Fix It

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On Amami Oshima Island, in the territory of Kagoshima in Japan, a plan designed to protect the inhabitants and preserve their unique fauna ended up becoming one of the country's biggest environmental errors.What was presented as a preventive measure ended up triggering a serious ecological imbalance that took decades of work, strong investments and the union of scientists and neighbors to reverse it.The environmental failure in Japan that turned…
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On Amami Oshima Island, in the territory of Kagoshima in Japan, a plan designed to protect the inhabitants and preserve their unique fauna ended up becoming one of the country's biggest environmental errors.What was presented as a preventive measure ended up triggering a serious ecological imbalance that took decades of work, strong investments and the union of scientists and neighbors to reverse it.The environmental failure in Japan that turned…

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OKDIARIO broke the news in on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
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