They decided to cull hundreds of squirrels!

It was announced that the city government of Kamakura, where there are many wooden temples, wants to spend about 50 thousand dollars to solve the squirrel problem.

According to Mainichi newspaper, they plan to provide residents with cages, put up posters telling tourists not to feed the squirrels and hire people to cull the squirrels.

Environmental activists in Kamakura also recognize the threat that invasive species pose to Japan's biodiversity and support the culling initiative.

Currently, more than 150 animal and plant species are considered invasive in Japan and are listed as foreign invaders by the environment ministry.

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