This Florida city has natural beauty in spades, but travellers may be surprised to discover it also has a quirky circus ...

About 150 members of the Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAiHP) Forum visited BI Sept. 14, ...

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. Photo for representational purposes.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Amami-Oshima is registered as a UNESCO Natural World Heritage site. The non-native mammal was introduced onto the island in 1979 to reduce the population of a highly venomous local snake species.

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 ...

The special warning, which calls for the highest level of vigilance, was announced at 1 p.m. The Amami Islands region in the prefecture is not covered by the warning. The agency may issue an ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency said Typhoon Shanshan was about 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of the southern island of Amami on Tuesday morning as it slowly headed north toward Kyushu while ...