Tag: Invasive Species

After just over a decade of being rat free, islands in the Indian Ocean are already showing signs of more seabirds and more nutrients that come from them. Several years...

The American public is responsible for at least a quarter of new invasive pest detections, suggesting they could also play a large role in identifying invasive wildlife species. “I had...

Researchers are determined to learn as much as they can about feral pigs’ group dynamics by developing special tools to track dozens of individuals at a time. Feral swine (Sus...

Sodium nitrite bait seemed like an ideal toxicant to deal with wild pigs. But when dead birds appeared near a test bait station in Texas, biologists realized they had eaten...

Rat Island, one of many islands in the Aleutian archipelago in Alaska, used to be aptly named. Invasive rats first arrived after escaping from a Japanese shipwreck in the 1780s....

The U.S. Forest Service has released a comprehensive assessment of invasive species, including plants, pathogens, insects and animals. Some are new arrivals. Some invaded so long ago that people are...

Malik Oedin and his colleagues first started to notice unexpected remains of flying foxes turning up in the scat of feral cats in New Caledonia, a French territory in the...

Invasive species have been on the rise around the world over the last decade, and so has the amount of money lost to them. In addition to the ecological problems...

Invasive zebra mussels have been discovered in moss balls sold in pet supply stores in North Dakota, prompting state agencies to institute a quarantine on the aquarium supplies. Zebra mussels...

Florida recently approved new rules to manage the importation, breeding, and possession of invasive reptile species that pose a high risk to native ecosystems. In a February meeting, the Florida...