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The California Kingsnake: An Invasive Threat in the Canary Islands
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Information on the biology and ecology of invasive predators can be crucial to developing control strategies and action plans. Still, particularly home range, activity patterns, or habitat use can facilitate more effective trapping. This strategic information becomes even more relevant to organisms that are difficult to manage, like snakes, which show extremely low detectability, secretive…
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Funding for Invasive Species in Florida
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Both chambers agreed on the number for python eradication, though, penciling in $1.35 million. Regarding python eradication, hunters removed around 18,000 pythons from Florida since 2000, and a 200% increase in captures since 2017 thanks to python removal contractors. Tegu efforts led to around 13,000 of the lizards being removed since 2012, with more than…
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Argentine Black and White Tegus in Charlotte County, Florida
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We set baited live traps during the Tegu active season from 2018-2020, resulting in the capture and removal of 170 Tegus from the population.
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Invasive Lizards in Florida, and why are there so few in Arizona
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In 2020 I was visiting friends in southern Florida. They picked me up at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and within a few minutes, we were headed south. Looking out the car window, I was astonished to see a Brown Basilisk Lizard, Basiliscus vittatus, trying to walk across the freeway. The lizard was a species…
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Malayopython reticulatus has colonized Puerto Rico
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A Fox News story in 2015, stated authorities in Puerto Rico caught a 3.6-meter, 70 pound Burmese Python in a river in the northern coastal town of Manati. Puerto Rico also has an introduced population of Boa constrictors, and it appears that Reticulated Pythons, the longest snake, and one that occasionally preys on humans, is…
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The 2022 Python Challenge is Underway in Florida
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The Florida Everglades supports a variety of native animals but over the years the pet trade and keepers of exotic animals have introduced a variety of invasive species including birds, mammals, fish and reptiles. The invasive Burmese python does not belong in Everglades ecosystem and pose a threat to native wildlife. The Florida Python Challenge billed as…
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A micro-endemic gecko threatened by an invasive tree.
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In the photo above…an adult male (left) and female (right) of Lygodactylus williamsi on a leaf of Pandanus rabaiensis in Kimboza Forest Reserve. Photos by John Lyakurwa. The Electric Blue Gecko, Lygodactylus williamsi, is a small, diurnal, gekkonid. Dominant males are a bright and vibrant turquoise-blue body, and retain this color throughout the year, while females are green-bronze.…
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