Japan struggles with invasive raccoon inhabitants

Norman Ray

World Courant

Japan’s raccoon plague has gotten considerably worse over the previous decade, a number of Japanese information sources report.

Practically 1,300 raccoons have been captured in fiscal 2022, the Tokyo authorities mentioned. That is about 5 instances the quantity arrested a decade in the past, Kyodo Information, a Japanese information company, reported.

In 2013, the Japanese authorities reiterated the necessity to management raccoons as an invasive species.

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At its peak, greater than 1,500 raccoons have been imported into Japan annually, in accordance with Smithsonian Journal.

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However though the Japanese authorities moved rapidly to ban each the importation of raccoons and their conserving as pets, it was too little, too late.

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