The government is trying to eliminate melaleuca trees and iguanas, since both species could deteriorate the ecosystem of the San Juan’s Bay estuary.
The supposed shortage of the Puerto Rican boa has been attributed to the mongoose (squirrel in Puerto Rico). This article argues against this asseveration.
Puerto Rico has a per capita incidence of asthma among the highest in the world, and children are nearly 300 percent more likely to have the respiratory ailment than white non-Hispanic children in the continental United States.
