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Poisonous Caterpillars Could Bring Misery to Millions of Olympic Spectators
Animals  (tags: animals, invasive species, caterpillars, health concerns, poisonous caterpillars, protection, humans, environment )

Cal
- 25 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Poisonous caterpillars which cause vomiting and dizziness if there hairs are inhaled could spread to trees around the Olympics potentially bringing misery to millions of spectators.
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FIGHTING INVASIVE SPECIES: Australian Volunteers Take Part in Cane Toad Cull
Animals  (tags: wildlife, wildanimals, world, invasive species, cane toads, animals, animaladvocates, humans, protection )

Cal
- 45 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Thousands of volunteers in Australia are taking part in a massive cull of cane toads.
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FIGHTING INVASIVE SPECIES: Bounty Offered on 'Fishzilla'
Animals  (tags: fighting invasive species, invasive species, animals, protection, humans, environment, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cal
- 46 days ago - enn.com
If Stephen King were to write a novel about a terrifying, monstrous fish, he might create something not unlike the snakehead.
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Macquarie Island Penguins Make An Inspiring Comeback
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, slaughter, invasive species, protection, humans, AnimalWelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, goodnews, GoodNews, habitat )

Cal
- 87 days ago - enn.com
About one hundred years ago, this penguin colony, known as a rookery, was subject to a terrible slaughter--Environmentalists launched a successful international campaign to protect the remaining 4,000 penguins-- they now number 500,000 birds
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INVASIVE SPECIES: Smallest Irish Mammal 'May Vanish'
Animals  (tags: invasive species, politics, protection, animalwelfare, animals, AnimalWelfare, wildlife )

Cal
- 95 days ago - irishtimes.com
Ireland's smallest mammal, the protected pygmy shrew, has "completely vanished" in some areas due to the introduction of new species.
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INVASIVE SPECIES: Plans to Block Carp Will re-Reverse Chicago River
Animals  (tags: invasive species, politics, protection, animalwelfare, animals, AnimalWelfare, wildlife )

Cal
- 115 days ago - uk.reuters.com
Keeping the invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes will involve re-reversing the flow of the Chicago River
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What Everglades Pythons and Other Invasive Species Are Trying to Tell Us
Animals  (tags: invasive species, politics, protection, animalwelfare, animals, AnimalWelfare, wildlife )

Cal
- 115 days ago - motherjones.com
Killer pythons, walking snakeheads, carnivorous snails, and the superpredator from the reef: The invasion has begun.
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California City Bans Bullfrogs to Safeguard Native Species
Animals  (tags: invasive species, politics, protection, animalwelfare, animals, AnimalWelfare, wildlife )

Cal
- 120 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Santa Cruz, California has become the first city in the U.S. to ban the importation, sale, release, and possession of the American bullfrog
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TAKE ACTION NOW--INVASIVE SPECIES--Stop the Parasitic Eel-Like Sea Lamprey in the Lake Champlain Basin
Animals  (tags: invasive species, Lamprey eel, wildlife, biodiversity, environment, animalrights, AnimalWelfare, animals, animalwelfare, endangered, protection, humans, habitat )

Cal
- 140 days ago - forcechange.com
he devastation that an invasive species can wreck upon an ecosystem is well noted. Be it competing for resources such as food or overtly preying upon native species, nearly all incidences of introduced species have been harmful to the environments that t
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Hybrid Man-Eating Pythons? Florida Is on Alert.
Animals  (tags: invasive species, pythons, protection, humans, animals, animaladvocates, animalwelfare, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cal
- 206 days ago - csmonitor.com
Scientists worry that two species of nonnative pythons now near the Everglades could breed, yielding more aggressive offspring.
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Fears Raised Over Mitten Crabs' Threat to Cumbrian Wildlife
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, invasive species, bees, hornets, AnimalWelfare, protection, environment, AnimalWelfare )

Cal
- 214 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Wildlife experts in Cumbria are raising awareness of the possible threat to native wildlife if Chinese mitten crabs establish a population in the county.
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Invasion! Beware the Killer Hornet
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, invasive species, bees, hornets, AnimalWelfare )

Cal
- 222 days ago - independent.co.uk
This Asian menace is established in France and set to cross the Channel. British beekeepers have been placed on red alert by a government warning that the UK is about to be invaded by the Asian hornet - a species whose favourite food is the honey bee
24 comments
Native New England Cottontail Rabbits Disappearing
Animals  (tags: expanding habitat range, outcompete, habitat loss, human encroachment, invasive species, declining numbers, endangered wildlife, overhunting, predation, human interference )

Rooibos
- 249 days ago - planetark.org
The New England cottontail rabbit, in sharp decline for decades throughout the Northeast, is on the verge of disappearing from several states, with the reason somewhat a mystery, wildlife experts say.
13 comments
Giant Snails Have Florida on Search-and-Destroy Mission
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, invasive species, giant crabs, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, humans, AnimalWelfare, habitat, environment, protection, humans, wildlife )

Cal
- 252 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Non-native species eats 500 types of plants -- and can cause meningitis in humans
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AUSTRALIA: Cane Toads Proving Highly Adaptable - Fast Colonisers
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, wildlife, wildanimals, invasive species, biodiversity, cane toads, habitat )

Cal
- 254 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Scaling cliffs, swimming extraordinary distances and negotiating cave systems - no wonder the cane toads' colonisation of Australia has been so fast.
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