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


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From: "William Morse" <wdmorse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups: sci.bio.evolution
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: Article: Precision Extinction - Eradicating a species when you
want to isn't that easy


> "Robert Karl Stonjek" <rstonjek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:dmgj6l$2dj4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > 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.
>
>Bill Morse:
> Now if we could only get rid of those pesky Homo sapiens :-)
>

RKS:
An infestation of feral George Bushs should do it...


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