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‘Everything is quagga mussel now’: can invasive species be stopped?

‘Everything is quagga mussel now’: can invasive species be stopped?

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While ecologists believe invasive species play a major role in more than 60% of plant and animal extinctions, stopping them in their tracks is almost impossible. Biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston tells Madeleine Finlay how invasive species spread, how c

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On a recent trip to Lake Geneva in Switzerland, biodiversity
reporter Phoebe Weston witnessed the impact of one of the planet’s
most potent invasive species, the quagga mussel. In just a decade
the mollusc, originally from the Ponto-Caspian region of the Black
Sea, has caused irreversible change beneath the surface of the
picturesque lake. While ecologists believe invasive species play a
major role in more than 60% of plant and animal extinctions,
stopping them in their tracks is almost impossible. Phoebe tells
Madeleine Finlay how invasive species spread, how conservationists
are trying combat them and why some think a radical new approach is
needed.. Help support our independent journalism at
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