To stop extinctions, start with these 169 islands, new study finds

Mongabay
Apr 2, 2019, 4:50 pm242 pts
Island-dwelling animals around the globe often face a common threat: alien species that compete with them for food, kill them and their young, and otherwise hamper their ability to survive. Now, new research shows that culling the non-native invaders on 169 islands around the world in the next decade or so…

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