Adopt- a- Topic: Invasive Species & Mgt Phase: United States
Bayles, T. (2023, August 17). Blueprint created for invasive species removal in Everglades. Retrieved September 5th, 2023, from https://news.wgcu.org/section/environment/2023-08-17/blueprint-created-for-invasive-species-removal-in-everglades
Scientists from the University of Florida after 10 years published a study on the removal of invasive species Spectacled caiman from the Eastern Everglades. Over those ten years, researchers worked on not only reducing the spread of Spectacled caiman, but also the removal of over 200 Spectacled caiman, and today this study provides a blueprint on how to deal with invasive species on a global scale. The researchers, satisfied with their efforts, continue on their project of removing invasive species by developing tools to locate caiman nests using thermal imaging.
This article showed innovative progress and that the health of ecosystems can be improved by humans removing invasive species. I believe that the article shed light on the importance of not only eradicating but monetization of invasive species. The article also made me think about how difficult it must be to not only monitor and dispatch potentially hostile reptiles, but also small ones like insects.
Interesting article, Gabriel. Of course the caiman is basically a crocodile, which you could imagine would be terrifying from Florida residents. So when they say they have a “blue print” it implies a kind of one size fits all approach for removing invasives. Do you think this is possible… did they describe how it works?
Great job with the abstract and follow up paragraph.