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Pot-plant trade is ‘hitchhiker pathway’ for invasive flatworms, say UK experts | Invertebrates

They have been invading the UK for years; small mucus-covered animals which hunt in gardens, allotments and greenhouses. The number…

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Rampaging raccoons: how the American mammals took over a German city – and are heading across Europe | Invasive species

In Kassel, everyone has a story about raccoons. Some struggle with a family of them that moved into their roof…

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Environment

Florida removes record haul of invasive pythons in effort to curb population | Florida

It was a milestone moment in Florida’s 25-year war on invasive Burmese pythons: an eye-popping announcement that biologists had removed…

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Environment

How an idealistic tree-planting project turned into Kenya’s toxic, thorny nightmare | Invasive species

For his entire life, John Lmakato has lived in Lerata, a village nestled at the foot of Mount Ololokwe in…

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Environment

Dogs are being trained to weed out eggs of invasive spotted lanternflies in US | US news

The spotted lanternfly, a leaf-hopping invasive pest first detected in the US a decade ago, has steadily spread across the…

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Environment

Less than 1% of UK biosecurity budget goes on tackling invasive species, figures show | Invasive species

Less than 1% of the government’s biosecurity budget goes on tackling invasive species, despite the danger they pose to British…

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Environment

Fire ant sting hospitalisations surge post-Cyclone Alfred as reports of first pet death also emerge | Invasive species

Twenty-three people have been hospitalised with serious fire ant stings amid a surge in reports of the invasive pest in…

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Tech

DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread

Before he was abruptly fired last month, Derek Copeland worked as a trainer at the US Department of Agriculture’s National…

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Environment

California officials encouraging residents to eat invasive rodents | California

Wildlife officials are encouraging California residents to add a rodent to their daily diet as part of efforts to control…

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Environment

Invasive Asian hornets ‘eating hundreds of insect species’ in Europe | Environment

Invasive Asian hornets are eating hundreds of different species of insects in Europe, including many which are important pollinators, researchers…

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