Invasive Species, Small Indian Mongoose

"The small Indian mongoose was first introduced into Fiji in 1883 to control rats in sugar cane fields and is now established on 13 of Fiji's approximately 332 islands...Mongooses are agile predators: in addition to rodents, they feed on reptiles, frogs, birds,& invertebrates, and eggs. In Fiji alone, this invasive species has been implicated in the extinction or decline of barred-winged rail, Pacific black duck, banded rail, purple swamp-hen, white-browed rail, sooty rail, friendly ground dove, black emo skink, and Gibbons' emo skink, ensuring its place among IUCN's 100 worst invasive species."