First make it illegal to rearrange, redesign, reroute water ways, destroy wetlands, woodlands, swamps, forests, grasslands, jungles, and deserts. Stop all construction of housing in these areas, set up quotas on the maximum number of kids a couple thats married can have, and make it illegal to have kids out of wedlock, sterilize offenders (sound like a Chinese idea a bit??) Set quotas on maximum human populations, and cut the maximum number of bosc, nile, etc monitors to a few a year total. You will see a big difference in say a decade, but we wouldnt be in America anymore would we. Solving this would be very difficult wouldnt it?
I can give you the example of the feral cats in my neighborhood, I live at the edge of what was formerly a glassland field, and was a farmers field for years, bordered by woodlands, wetlands etc. At one time I could have found copperheads, rattlesnakes, foxes, bobcats, coyote, etc, now we have feral cats, groundhogs, rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks, do you know what caused the other species to disappear? The fields and woods were torn down in many places and housing developments sprung up like geysers everywhere. Why mention the cats, Ill tell you, the cats do not hunt or even make use of the fields, they stay around the houses, habitat loss is what allowed the cats which were eaten by some of the others to take over.

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