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Island Conservation
IC Restoration Specialist Mele Khalsa is featured in For Kauai explaining the need for conservation interventions to save endangered species. By: Mele Khalsa The Hawaiian Islands are the home to a wide diversity of unique species. Unfortunately, many of them are dying out before our very eyes. The native forest birds are succumbing to avian […]
Penguin Island, Western Australia, is now free of invasive rats. Western Australia’s Department of Parks and Wildlife has announced a conservation intervention project to remove invasive rats from Penguin Island is complete. The invasive rodents had been off-setting the ecosystem’s balance; now that the island is free from this unnatural pressure, native plants and wildlife […]
A paper published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details how invasive species removal can restore island ecosystems and protect native species. Ecosystems around the world suffer from the presence of invasive species. Invasive species, when introduced to a foreign environment, can cause sudden and disastrous shifts in the ecosystem. Although invasive species erode ecosystem vitality around […]
Native plant extinctions caused by invasive plants occur over a long period of time and are difficult to detect. Research indicates a need for tracking plant decline and instating measures to prevent extinctions. A new research paper by Paul O. Downey and David M. Richardson, published by Oxford University Press, tackles the problem of measuring threats that invasive plants pose […]