[Link] 'Horrible to think about': Dire warning on spread of fire ants

Read: 16/2/2022 www.abc.net.au

The national fire ant program began in 2017 with a $411 million budget from the Commonwealth, states and territories, but recently admitted it needs more money and time to eradicate the ants.

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[Link] Colombia Is Finally Sterilizing Pablo Escobar’s Hippos

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

Colombia’s Regional Autonomous Corporation of the Negro and Nare Rivers (Cornare), an environmental agency, announced the sterilizations of 24 of the more than 80 hippos residing in the rivers near Escobar’s former Hacienda Napoles compound last week.

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[Link] An aquarium accident may have given this crayfish the DNA to take over the world

Read: 5/8/2021 www.sciencemag.org

It sounds like a bad monster movie plot: A 10-legged mutant creature that reproduces asexually, escapes from confinement in Germany, and quietly begins a global invasion.

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