#invasive-species

#invasive-species

Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: exterminating animals. "So we have a possum trap the white ones that are up on the trees," says Finn Hibbert, age 18, pointing to a white and metal box designed to kill brushtail possums, an Australian marsupial. Other traps scattered throughout the park also kill rats.

The kiwi is New Zealand's most iconic bird. Round and fuzzy, the bird is flightless and has a long beak that makes it adorable or awkward, depending on who you ask. New Zealanders are even known as "kiwis." Still, despite the kiwi's fame, many people in New Zealand have never seen one. Kiwi have become increasingly rare. Over the last century, New Zealand's unique birds have disappeared at a rapid pace.

Kenya's arid north has always stirred the imaginations of those who visit. Its open, scorched bushland distributed over exposed geological formations and crosscut by riverine tentacles never fails to elicit impressions of emptiness and remoteness. To most outsiders, this is a timeless land. It is beautiful but unproductive, so the imaginary goes. It is backward. Its vulnerabilities - drought, famine, conflict, poverty - are inherent. Radical change is needed: a new way of doing things to unlock vast untapped potential and bring prosperity.

When a virulent material enters an ecosystem, it can wreak havoc on existing life. Bittersweet vines in Upstate New York, for example, were brought to the region in the second half of the 19th century to combat erosion and for their sinuous, woody beauty. Native to eastern Asia, these largely poisonous plants quickly became invasive, smothering other specimens and even uprooting trees.

For nearly 25 years, the Roadless Rule has frustrated land managers and served as a barrier to action prohibiting road construction, which has limited wildfire suppression and active forest management,

The scientist traipses to a pond wearing rubber boots but he doesn't enter the water. Instead, Brad Hollingsworth squats next to its swampy edge and retrieves a recording device the size of a deck of cards. He then opens it up and removes a tiny memory card containing 18 hours of sound. Back at his office at the San Diego Natural History Museum, the herpetologist an expert in reptiles and amphibians uses artificial intelligence to analyze the data on the card.

Mute swans are invasive species in California, known for their territorial behavior, which includes drowning smaller animals, making them a significant threat to local ecosystems.

Crawfish Boils are feasts featuring crayfish, corn, potatoes, and sausage, deeply rooted in Creole and Cajun culture, now being celebrated in Bermondsey.

The New World Screwworm (NWS) lays hundreds of larvae in the wounds of animals and people, which hatch within hours and consume the victim's tissue.

Last year a foxtail seed barb got lodged in our dog's inner eyelid and scratched her cornea, " resident Jasmine Colahan posted on Instagram.

"There's always some risk with species like this. If T. magnum were to establish here, it could become a nuisance. They form vast supercolonies..."

Green crabs have been in New England since the mid-to-late 1980s, making their way from Europe and West Africa via cargo ships.

Starting May 7, the EBRPD's banding program is transitioning to color-coded, lake-specific bands and will no longer accept EBMUD bands.

Nutria are invasive rodents that reproduce rapidly and destroy habitats, leading to significant environmental impacts, particularly through erosion and flooding caused by their feeding and burrowing behavior.