Food Chain Radio Show #1102

Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming

Invasion of Invasive Species

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Should invasive species be eliminated or allowed to grow?

Allowed to grow

Eliminated

Total voters: 3

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Guest: Heath Packard, Director of Communications Island Conservation

It is now a small world in which everyone is free to go most anywhere. And when they do go, they often take with them species of life alien to the environment in which they are being introduced.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Should invasive species be eliminated or allowed to grow?

The elemental characteristic of the alien invaders is that they have no competition in their new environments. With nothing there to see them as breakfast, invasive species grow unmolested and quickly outperform native species, which some do see as breakfast.

And the more everyone gets around, the more invasive species get around. Said McGill University Professor Anthony Ricciardi, “Environmental , biotechonological, and sociopolitical trends are transforming risks of invasion worldwide.”

This invasion of the invasive species leads us to ask:

What makes a species an invasive species?

How do invasive species invade and conquer?

By what means can invasive species be eliminated?

Leave a comment below: Should invasive species be eliminated?

Tune in here, for the syndicated Food Chain Radio Show #1102 May 13 , 2017 Saturday 9AM Pacific 

Nationally syndicated Food Chain Radio airs live Saturday mornings 9-10AM Pacific.