Guam Under Siege From Pollution And Development
1995 • Guam
Evergrowing garbage dumps and the use of pesticides on golf courses began to contaminate the water lens and wells. Many of Guam's reefs were dying from silt runoff from construction sites. The progeny of brown tree snakes… now crawled everywhere, killing off native birds and even attacking small children. Only about 500 fanihi, the Marianas fruit bat, survived on Guam by 1990…. The high-rise hotels along the beach disturbed the flows of fresh water from the plateau above.
“Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific An Environmental History” By Don Garden, Series Editor Mark R. Still, ABC-CLIO, 2005, Pg. 141.
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