InvasivesThreat Thursday: Biologists and land managers around the world are always looking for new ways to improve early detection of invasive species to prevent their furthering spread. Dogs have proven very useful in combating the invasive brown tree snake in south pacific islands such as Guam, where the invasive snake stows away in cargo and in airplane fuselages and has decimated island bird populations. Now dogs are being looked at to sniff out aquatic invasives as well: kpax/news/new-tool-to-fight-invasive-species-dogs-at-flathead-lake/
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:30:01 +0000