A report by nearly 90 scientists has found that species are being transported between countries faster than ever before.
The American mink was brought to the UK for its fur but it has since escaped and become established, preying on water voles
Of the 37,000 alien species documented by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a major report published on Monday, 3,500 have become invasive, with 66% of those found on indigenous lands. The scientists estimate that invasive species have caused or contributed to 60% of global extinctions, with nearly all of them happening on islands, which are the most vulnerable because they have unique ecologies that may have had no contact with the rest of the world for thousands of years before humans arrived.
“But if they do reach new areas, then being prepared and having early detection and rapid response is absolutely critical.” It harbours a fungus that kills other plant life and in Scotland it is rapidly displacing many other species.
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