The post Australia imported 2,400 toads to save its crops – now 200 million of them are an unstoppable disaster appeared first on AZ Animals. Quick pick upCane frogs were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control sugarcane beetles, but toads ignore bug while decimating the ecosystem they were supposed to protect.Instead, they became one … Read more
The post The Island Assassin: How the Little Indian Mongoose Became One of Conservation’s Biggest Mistakes appeared first on AZ Animals. Quick pick up The Small Indian mongoose was introduced to control rats but instead devastated island ecosystems by predation on vulnerable native wildlife. Islands like Hawaii and Okinawa suffered severe biodiversity loss because native … Read more
LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) — The rough fingers of Photis Gaitanos deftly untangle the poisonous tips of a lionfish from a net, dropping the exotic-looking creature into a rubber basket filled with ice along with other fish of the day’s catch. Unlike a few years ago, when he would have mostly caught local staples such as … Read more
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Wildlife workers in Kansas are keeping the pressure on an invasive species that has invaded one of the state’s most important rivers. Biologists with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks continue to campaign against the presence of invasive Asian carp in the Kansas River. Over the past four years, KDWP has … Read more