{"id":218406,"date":"2025-09-11T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218406\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:48:14","slug":"live-juvenile-mongoose-lured-into-trap-with-fresh-coconut-on-kaua%ca%bbi-big-island-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/218406\/","title":{"rendered":"Live juvenile mongoose lured into trap with fresh coconut on Kaua\u02bbi : Big Island Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 10, 2025, 3:30 PM HST <\/p>\n

\n\"\"A mongoose was captured on Kaua\u02bbi. (Photo Courtesy: Hawai\u02bbi Department of Agriculture)<\/p>\n

A live mongoose has been captured on Kaua\u02bbi, where the invasive species does not have an established population.<\/p>\n

In a multiagency effort to prevent mongoose establishment, members of the Kaua\u02bbi Invasive Species Committee captured the animal at N\u0101wiliwili Small Boat Harbor on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

The Kaua\u02bbi Invasive Species Committee had deployed 12 traps baited with fresh coconuts along the jetty wall at the harbor on Sept. 4, after receiving reports of a possible mongoose along the jetty. The following morning, a juvenile female mongoose was found in one of the traps.<\/p>\n

\"InIn a multiagency effort to prevent mongoose establishment, members of the Kaua\u02bbi Invasive Species Committee captured the animal at N\u0101wiliwili Small Boat Harbor on Friday morning. (Photo Courtesy: Hawai\u02bbi Department of Agriculture)<\/p>\n

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The Kaua\u02bbi Invasive Species Committee handed the mongoose over to the Hawai\u02bbi Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, which is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Wildlife Services to complete an analysis.<\/p>\n

While Kaua\u02bbi does not have an established population of mongoose, they are known to hitchhike to Kaua\u02bbi from infested areas. Mongooses are established on O\u02bbahu, Maui, Moloka\u02bbi, and Hawai\u02bbi Island and pose a threat to native ground-nesting birds.<\/p>\n

In a multiagency effort to protect Kaua\u02bbi from the devastating impacts of an established mongoose population, teams from the Kaua\u02bbi Invasive Species Committee, Hawai\u02bbi Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity, and additional agencies respond to mongoose sightings at high-risk sites.<\/p>\n

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Five live mongooses have been captured since response efforts were strengthened in 2012. The last mongoose caught on Kaua\u02bbi was a pregnant female captured at N\u0101wiliwili Harbor in 2023.<\/p>\n

Any suspected mongoose sightings should be reported to Kaua\u2018i Invasive Species Committee at 808-821-1490, the state toll-free PEST HOTLINE at: 808-643-PEST(7378) or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 10, 2025, 3:30 PM HST A mongoose was captured on Kaua\u02bbi. (Photo Courtesy: Hawai\u02bbi Department of Agriculture)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":218407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[58619,119233,119234,119235,63877,119236,119237,119238,119239,119240,36821,103565,117325,119241,117781,117326,119242,119243,159,105415,16580,67,132,68,837,73421],"class_list":{"0":"post-218406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-biosecurity","9":"tag-fresh-coconuts","10":"tag-ground-nesting-birds","11":"tag-hawaii-department-of-agriculture","12":"tag-hawaii-island","13":"tag-high-risk-sites","14":"tag-jetty-wall","15":"tag-juvenile-female","16":"tag-kauai","17":"tag-kauai-invasive-species-committee","18":"tag-maui","19":"tag-molokai","20":"tag-mongoose","21":"tag-multiagency-effort","22":"tag-nawiliwili-harbor","23":"tag-nawiliwili-small-boat-harbor","24":"tag-oahu","25":"tag-pest-hotline","26":"tag-science","27":"tag-traps","28":"tag-u-s-department-of-agriculture","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-wildlife","33":"tag-wildlife-services"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115186218324087414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}