These ten forbidden places in the world are scattered across different countries, not to be visited for reasons of security ...

Japan's Environment Ministry on Tuesday announced that non-native mongooses have been eradicated from Amami-Oshima Island in the ... 1979 to exterminate the habu snake, a poisonous pit viper.

In a misguided attempt to eradicate the poisonous habu snake, in 1979, 30 mongooses were brought to this island from Okinawa ... kayaking through Japan’s second-largest virgin mangrove forests ...

Sado Island, Japan, is inhabited by seven species of snakes ... a five-year field study to investigate the ecology of each snake species. Their results showed that differences in feeding habits ...

Japan is one of those ... left over from the decades of snake smoking. Setsuko and Yoko had a few favourite hunting spots in small caves and coves across the island. A few hours before dusk ...