Re: Article: Precision Extinction - Eradicating a species when you want to isn't that easy

"Robert Karl Stonjek" <rstonjek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Precision Extinction
> Eradicating a species when you want to isn't that easy
> By Nick Atkinson
> The environmental havoc these creatures wreak, it would appear,
> justifies control, if not complete eradication. Various factors affect
> such decisions, the cost of action versus inaction ultimately
> determining the fate of many invasive species. Scientists are faced
> with a doubly daunting task: to prove economic harm and reduce the
> costs of control, tipping the balance of the equation.
>
> Scientific research now underpins almost all efforts to control
> invasive species, but in evolutionary terms such organisms are very
> much a moving target, and hard to hit. By definition, they are able to
> exploit new habitats and out-compete local species. That they are good
> at what they do is what makes them both undesirable and difficult to
> eradicate.

Now if we could only get rid of those pesky Homo sapiens :-)

Yours,

Bill Morse

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