Empowering Door County citizens and municipalities with the information, tools, and skills to tackle invasive species.
Empowering Door County citizens and municipalities with the information, tools, and skills to tackle invasive species.
A recent study in the scientific journal Nature suggests the global economic cost of invasive species has been at least $1.28 trillion over the last 50 years, and is likely an underestimation. “This trillion-dollar bill doesn’t show any sign of slowing down, with a consistent three-fold increase per decade” author Christophe Diagne of the Université Paris-Saclay said in a statement. “The global costs of invasive alien species are so massive that we spent months verifying our models and this overall estimate, to ensure we were not exaggerating.”
This acceleration of invasive species impacts can be partly explained by the increase in pathways these species are introduced, such as increasing global trade and transportation, and by the simplification of ecological systems for agriculture and infrastructure making systems more vulnerable to invasive species.
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