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Agric. & Environment
World losing high-stakes fight against alien species
The failure is costing well over $400 billion dollars a year in damages and lost income -- the equivalent to the GDP of Denmark or Thailand -- and that is likely a "gross underestimation".
A photo shows the head of a Asian Hornet (Vespa Velutina) on September 30, 2014 at the Research Institute of Biology of the Insect (IRBI) in Tours, central France. (Photo by GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
Invasive species that wreck crops, ravage forests, spread disease, and upend ecosystems are spreading ever faster across the globe, and humanity has not been able to stem the tide, a