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Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform report shows about 3,500 problematic invaders

Four years of research, contributed to by 86 experts from 49 countries, is set to become the benchmark of public understanding on the subject.

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In the midst of a complex web of crises, spanning climate change, biodiversity depletion, constraints on civic space and mounting debt burdens, civil society organizations and human rights defenders f

These are just a few examples of the environmental chaos sown by invasive species, whose spread around the world has seen economic damages quadruple every decade since 1970, scientists said on Monday. The team of 86 researchers from 49 countries released a four-year assessment of the global impacts of some 3,500 harmful invasive species, finding that economic costs now total at least $423 billion every year, with the alien invaders playing a key role in 60% of recorded plant and animal extincti...

LONDON: Fishing grounds choked by water hyacinths. Songbird eggs gobbled up by rats. Power plant pipes clogged by...

About three-quarters of the negative impacts from invasive species occur on land, especially in forests, woodlands, and farmed areas.

Invasive alien species cost the planet £335 billion in 2019, according to a new report into this global threat to nature.

Alien invaders are penetrating the borders of every country in the world. Now the full extent of the problems and potential solutions have been exposed, in a new United Nations report.

The severe global threat posed by invasive alien species is underappreciated, underestimated, and often unacknowledged. According to a major new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), more than 37,000 alien species have been introduced by many human activities to regions and biomes around the world. This conservative estimate is now rising at unprecedented rates. More than 3,500 of these are harmful invasive alien species – seriously threatenin...