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Article: BIODIVERSITY: INVASIVE SPECIES TURNING ISLANDS INTO PARADISE LOST
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- April 17, 2006
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Mario Osava
Inter Press Service English News Wire
04-17-2006
RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr. 14, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Many countries,
including Brazil, are only just waking up to the threat that
invading species can pose to islands, generally seen as natural
paradises and tourist attractions.
A recent Brazilian government inventory of the fauna on islands
off the country's Atlantic coast simply listed exotic invasive
species without identifying them as such, said Silvia Ziller,
executive director of the Horus Institute in Brazil, and
coordinator of the international Nature Conservancy's South
American program on invasive species.
Conserving biodiversity on islands is one of the top priorities
of the ...
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