HONOLULU (AP) – The Defense and Interior departments are chipping in almost $3 million to rescue a program preventing an invasive snake species from hitchhiking rides from Guam to Hawaii on cargo ships and planes.
Scientists fear the brown tree snakes would wipe out Hawaii’s many endangered birds if they became established in the state.
The program was on course to be cancelled today but The Associated Press learned it got a reprieve when the Interior and Defense departments last week agreed to fund it for the next nine months.
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