News Archive: Invasives in the News
EPA Rule Would Create Incentives to Spread Invasive Species
Last week the National Environmental Coalition on Invasive Species joined a group of 96 organizations in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget outlining concerns over a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that could provide incentives to spread a harmful invasive species. The rule would allow a plant called Arundo donax (also known as Giant [...]
Breaking: The Economic Case for More Invasive Risk Assessments and Regulation
A new article published in Biological Invasions delves deep into risk analysis and economic cost/benefit information gathered over the last year and a half. In the article Peter Jenkins, Executive Director of the Center for Invasive Species Prevention and member of the National Environmental Coalition on Invasive Species, also recommends specific federal policy reforms that will [...]
House Judiciary Committee Passes Snakes Bill
Last week the House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 511, a bill from Representative Rooney (R-FL) that would add nine species of large constrictor snakes to the list of species that are prohibited from being imported or crossing state lines. Unfortunately, this positive effort was undermined by an amendment to allow a broad exemption for certain exhibitors [...]
Huge Burmese Python Eats Full Grown Deer
A 16 foot Burmese python consumed a full grown 76-pound deer last Thursday in western Miami-Dade County, Florida. The python had a girth of 44 inches after devouring the deer whole. Officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission captured and killed the python, one of the largest on record, in order to help stop [...]
Emerging Nutrient Crisis Causing Massive New Breakdowns in the Great Lakes
NWF testifies before U.S. Senate Subcommittee on new report as part of federal examination of nation-wide nutrient pollution epidemic ANN ARBOR, MICH. (October 4, 2011) – The National Wildlife Federation today released a report documenting new and massive ecosystem breakdowns in the Great Lakes caused by interactions between excessive fertilizer run-off from farms and [...]
Invasive species destroy Lake Michigan’s fish population
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Cane Toads: The Conquest
CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST will be released nationally by Pinnacle Films on June 2. The film is a comic yet provocative account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder. Filmmaker Mark Lewis (Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, The Natural History of the Chicken) explores one of Australia’s greatest environmental catastrophes as he follows the unstoppable march [...]
Jumping Fish Invade Louisiana
You can’t help but laugh watching the wild web videos of Asian carp leaping out of the water in states like Illinois and Indiana, but you may not realize this problem hits close to home. Invasive species expert Michael Massimi from the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program says it’s no laughing matter. We spent a day [...]
Pet Shop Fish Confiscated At Airport
Fish headed to pet shop confiscated at O’Hare By Katie Drews A shipment of tropical fish commonly found in pet shops was recently confiscated at O’Hare Airport for breaking the City of Chicago’s invasive species ordinance, officials said. During a routine customs inspection at the airport, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent discovered approximately 350 [...]
County sets up border base against invasive mussels
County sets up border base against invasive mussels Twin Falls Times-News The first line of defense against two invasive species carried across the Nevada-Idaho border on boats will become a little more permanent. Twin Falls County will lease a trailer from Mid-Snake Resource Conservation and Development to hold boat inspections a mile north of the [...]
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