Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi). The Amami rabbit is a relict endemic species—it was more widespread but is now confined to a particular region—that migrated from the continent about 5 ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...

Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...

The Amami rabbit is a highly protected species. In 2005, the ministry designated mongooses as an alien species harmful to the ecosystem and launched a project to eradicate them.

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.

AMAMI, Kagoshima Prefecture--The Environment Ministry said Sept. 3 it has eliminated all invasive mongooses from Amami-Oshima island here, ... such as the Amami rabbit, ...

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 ...

Amami Oshima Islands, designated as a Natural World Heritage site in 2021, is home to rich biodiversity, including many endemic species. For instance, the Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ...

When I tell people I’m off to Amami Oshima, a remote island in Japan’s southwest, ... it’s a haven for rare and endangered wildlife such as the Amami rabbit, Amami jay and Ishikawa’s frog.

About 30 of the venom-resistant predators were released on Amami Oshima, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in the late 1970s to keep down the population of habu, a pit viper whose bite can be deadly ...