Point-Counterpoint: Reframing the Concept of Invasives
The persistent negative view of non-native species that has dominated conservation and ecological restoration activities in theUnited Statesin recent decades has its roots in the early 1980s, when a...
View ArticlePoint-Counterpoint: There’s Nothing Benign about Invasions
Introduced predators catch the public’s eye when they devastate native species. The Burmese python in South Florida, for example, has caused greater than a 90 percent decline in prey species such as...
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Countless Asian lady beetles (Harmonia axyridis) overrun a pine tree in Colorado’s Pike National Forest. Originally from eastern Asia, lady beetles were brought to North America to control aphids....
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Polynesian rats clog a brown tree snake trap on Cocos Island, Guam. Though the rats were abundant and the snakes were rare on Cocos, both posed a significant threat to island birds. (Credit: Daniel...
View ArticleTackling an Invasion
Jim Creber (left) and Wade Harper of Applied Aquatic Management, Inc., got a surprise while treating Old World climbing fern at a Water Conservation Area in Miami: They found and removed an engorged...
View ArticleSome Useful Anthropomorphism
Richard Ruggiero holds Tonique, a six-month-old orphaned chimp. (Photo courtesy of Richard G. Ruggiero) Dare we admit that as trained professionals, scientists, and wildlife biologists, we sometimes...
View ArticleA Call to Action
Hoping to prevent the spread of Asian long-horned beetles, Canadian authorities posted a sign in Toronto warning about the risks of transporting firewood. (Credit: GTD Aquitaine/Wikimedia) When crude...
View ArticleA Clear and Present Danger
Invasive Old World climbing fern enshrouds cypress trees in Florida as entomologist Robert Pemberton surveys the scene. The weed’s leafy skirts can funnel wildfire flames to the tops of trees that...
View ArticleA Bellwether Species
At a forest opening in the Central African Republic, elephants dig with their trunks in the mud to reach rare salts needed in their diet. The action of feet, tusks, and trunks exposes minerals that...
View ArticleFrom Challenge to Hope
Sedated to ease its fear of flying, this black rhino was one of 19 flown from a heavily poached area in South Africa to safer, more remote ground during a World Wildlife Fund project in 2011. Extreme...
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