Rats on the Cook Islands Palmerston Atoll could be gone for good by years end, making a massive difference to the islands community and biodiversity. At the request of the community, a full-scale rat eradication will take place mid-2023.
They’re one of the most damaging environmental forces on Earth. They’ve colonised pretty much every place humans have set foot on the planet. Yet you might not even know they exist. We’re talking about alien species.
In a new study, researchers from SANParks and their collaborators from the Centre for Invasion Biology put a theoretical commonness framework to the test to demonstrate how changing the resolution of data used in alien species management can revolutionize how we manage them...Managing alien plant
An increase of 20 to 30 percent of invasive alien species will lead to dramatic future biodiversity loss worldwide by 2050.
Invasive alien species are increasing the threat of emerging infectious diseases, a new study from a global research team has warned. Alien species – animals, plants and microbes – are those introduced by people in regions where they do not naturally occur, either intentionally or by accident.
The first time poet Craig Santos Perez encountered a bird native to his homeland of Guam it was in a cage at San Diego zoo. Growing up on Guam in the 1980s and 90s, Perez, a native Chamorro, had learned about the island’s lost birds at school.
This book is of worldwide benefit to people, for assessment and management of biological invasion risks