Interim profile, incomplete information
Location Specific Impacts:Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe)  
Agricultural: The raccoon is a major consumer of fruits, sugar cane and sweet potatoes making it a potential pest for crops.
Predation: The raccoon is suspected of having an impact on herpetofauna and birdlife. According Bon Saint Côme and Tanasi (1994), it feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, fish, birds and Anura. Grande-Terre (Guadeloupe) (Guadeloupe)
Agricultural: The raccoon is a major consumer of fruits, sugar cane and sweet potatoes making it a potential pest for crops.
Predation: The raccoon is suspected of having an impact on herpetofauna and birdlife. According Bon Saint Côme and Tanasi (1994), it feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, fish, birds and Anura. La Désirade Is. (Guadeloupe)
Agricultural: The raccoon is a major consumer of fruits, sugar cane and sweet potatoes making it a potential pest for crops.
Predation: The raccoon is suspected of having an impact on herpetofauna and birdlife. According Bon Saint Côme and Tanasi (1994), it feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, fish, birds and Anura. Marie Galante Is. (Guadeloupe)
Agricultural: The raccoon is a major consumer of fruits, sugar cane and sweet potatoes making it a potential pest for crops.
Predation: The raccoon is suspected of having an impact on herpetofauna and birdlife. According Bon Saint Côme and Tanasi (1994), it feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, fish, birds and Anura. Japan
Agricultural: The raccoon damages crops and fruits such as corn, melons, watermelons, strawberries, paddy rice, soybeans, potatoes, beets, oats, and so on in summer and autumn. The total amount of agricultural damage amounts from 30-40 million yen every year in Hokkaido (Ikeda, Tohru (Research Group of Regional Science, Hokkaido University)., pers.comm February 2009).
Competition: Resource competition with the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) turned these animals out into unfavorable habitats (Ikeda, Tohru (Research Group of Regional Science, Hokkaido University)., pers.comm February 2009).
Disease transmission: Infectious disease such as raccoon roundworm (Baylisascaris procyonis) infection has not been detected in naturalized raccoons yet, but detected in captivity (Ikeda, Tohru (Research Group of Regional Science, Hokkaido University)., pers.comm February 2009).
Economic/Livelihoods: The raccoon damages crops and fruits such as corn, melons, watermelons, strawberries, paddy rice, soybeans, potatoes, beets, oats, and so on in summer and autumn. The total amount of agricultural damage amounts from 30-40 million yen every year in Hokkaido (Ikeda, Tohru (Research Group of Regional Science, Hokkaido University)., pers.comm February 2009).
Reduction in native biodiversity: Predation on the Japanese crayfish (Cambaroides japonicus), the Ezo salamander (Hynobius retardatus) is serious. Impacts on Tokyo hynobiid salamander (Hynobius tokyoensis), Red claws crab (Chiromantes haematocheir) and shore crab (Helice tridens) are also concerned. Nest abandonment of the grey heron (Ardea cinerea) due to the raccoon attacking of the reproductive colony is reported (Ikeda, Tohru (Research Group of Regional Science, Hokkaido University)., pers.comm February 2009). Martinique
Agricultural: Le raton laveur est un gros consommateur de fruits, de canne à sucre et de patates douces ce qui en fait un nuisible potentiel pour les cultures.
Agricultural: The raccoon is a major consumer of fruits, sugar cane and sweet potatoes making it a potential pest for crops.
Predation: The raccoon is suspected of having an impact on herpetofauna and birdlife. According Bon Saint Côme and Tanasi (1994), it feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, fish, birds and Anura. Saint Martin (France)
Agricultural: The raccoon is a major consumer of fruits, sugar cane and sweet potatoes making it a potential pest for crops.
Predation: The raccoon is suspected of having an impact on herpetofauna and birdlife. According Bon Saint Côme and Tanasi (1994), it feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, fish, birds and Anura.
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