Invasive Species News

The largest city in British Columbia makes a perfect gateway to explore the rich marine wildlife and beauty of the region.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/travel/island-coast-day-trips-vancouver.html

Climate change, civil conflict and growing resistance to insecticides and treatments are all contributing to an alarming spread of cases.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/health/malaria-ethiopia-deaths-cases.html

Eoghan Daltun rewilded his land in West Cork and wants more of Ireland to do the same.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/18/climate/ireland-ecological-desert-rewilding.html

The results from an important ongoing assessment look grim. But the survey is often misunderstood.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/climate/wildlife-survey-population-declines-wwf.html

Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/us/rat-alaska-saint-paul-island.html

The aquatic reptiles cannot resist eating invasive toads that are toxic, so scientists gave the crocodiles a dose of nonlethal food poisoning to adjust their behavior.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/science/crocodiles-cane-toads-bait-australia.html

We need new laws to protect important ecosystems.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/opinion/owls-endangered-conservation-forests.html

A dogged paleoecologist named Dorothy Peteet is digging through the salt marshes of New York in the hope of preserving the city’s best natural defense against climate change.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/nyregion/jamaica-bay-marsh-new-york-city.html

We’re told we should get rid of them. But one person’s menace can be another person’s medicine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/magazine/weeds-gardening.html

While trying to save large amphibians native to Japan, herpetologists in the country unexpectedly found a way to potentially save an even bigger species in China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/science/giant-salamanders-japan-china.html