PARIS: Invasive species that destroy forests, ravage crops and cause extinctions are a major and growing threat worldwide, a landmark UN-backed assess...
This photograph taken on September 25, 2012 shows a deadly Australia eastern brown snake, which has enough venom to kill 20 adults with a single bite, in the Sydney suburb of Terrey Hills. AFPPIX: Invasive species that destroy forests, ravage crops and cause extinctions are a major and growing threat worldwide, a landmark UN-backed assessment is poised to report.
The science advisory panel for the UN Convention on Biodiversity, known by its acronym IPBES, will release on Monday the most comprehensive assessment of so-called “alien species” ever assembled. Scientists point to the pervasive spread of these species as hard evidence that rapid expansion of human activity has so radically altered natural systems as to tip Earth into a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, or the “era of humans”.
The Everglades wetlands preserve in Florida is teeming with the destructive offspring of erstwhile pets and house plants, from five-metre Burmese pythons and walking catfish to Old World climbing fern and Brazilian pepper.
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