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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

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Burmese pythons either escaped from pet trade breeding facilities in South Florida after Hurricane Andrew or were released by people who no longer wanted them as pets. The impact that pythons are having on native wildlife is not well understood. Photo Credit: Invasive and Exotic Species of North America (www.invasive.org).

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually.