Guam Marine Corps Base Harms Endangered Species, Lawsuit Says

Conservation groups filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of approving construction of a Marine Corps base camp in Guam without fully considering its effects on dwindling species.

The Camp Blaz project intends to relocate 5,000 Marines and their families from Okinawa, Japan, to a new 4,000-acre military installation in Guam with housing facilities and a training complex, the Center for Biological Diversity and Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian said in their complaint.

But the base, which opened in January, destroyed hundreds of acres of Guam’s last remaining native limestone forest and is harming some of the most endangered species ...