A big-scale seize operation of the invasive alien species “snapping turtle”, which can have a significant impression on the ecosystem, has begun round Lake Inbanuma, Chiba Prefecture.
About 6,500 snapping turtles, that are designated as invasive alien species, are believed to inhabit the world round Inbanuma in Chiba Prefecture. enhance.
On the seventeenth, when prefectural officers pulled out the traps that had been set within the waterway upfront, they captured three giant snapping turtles with shells of about 20 centimeters.