Authorities captured a live mongoose at Nawiliwili Small Boat Harbor on Kauai on Friday as part of a multi-agency effort to keep the invasive species off the Garden Isle.

The Kauai Invasive Species Committee captured the critter after deploying 12 different traps baited with fresh coconuts along the harbor’s jetty wall. The Friday morning after they were laid out, KISC members found a juvenile, female mongoose in one of the traps.

KISC handed the mongoose over to the Hawaii Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity. It has since been euthanized, according to DAB, and a necropsy and analysis is being completed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wildlife Services.

Kauai remains free of an established population of mongoose, which were introduced to Hawaii from India in the late 1800s

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