Category Archives: Invasive Species
Invasive Non-Native Species: BES POSTnote Seminar at Parliament
Fay Collier, this year’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) fellow (awarded by the British Ecological Society), researched and wrote a review for POSTnote on Invasive Non-Native species: their ecological and economic threats. A seminar was held on the … Continue reading
New Database Shows Extent of Threat to Marine Environment from Non-Native Invasive Species
New research published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment reveals the extent of the threat posted to the marine environment from non-native invasive species. Researchers created a database of invasive species worldwide, examining 329 non- native invasive species and … Continue reading
Control of Invasive Non-Native Species
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is consulting on proposed revisions to Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act and ban on the sale of certain non-native species. Defra has proposals to both add and remove species … Continue reading
GB Strategy for Invasive Non-Native Species
A draft of the GB Invasive Non-native Species Framework Strategy is out for consultation until 23 May 2007. The draft strategy’s vision is to protect against the adverse consequences of invasive non-native species by increasing awareness, improving co-ordination amongst a … Continue reading