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MadAxeMan
at Mon Feb 11 09:16:49 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by MadAxeMan ]
Most of the animals on it only have a remote possibility of ever invading anywhere in the United states EXCEPT florida and possibly South Texas and considering I grew up in Alice Tx. and know how cold it gets there...a mere 110 miles or so north of Brownsville I have my doubts about South Texas. Java sparrows are from Malaysia and Thailand and Indonesia and yet they are considered an invasive. I grow fruit trees from this same region as a hobby and I can tell you it's not likely they would survive long even here in Fl. I have heard the walking catfish are still here although once again I don't see them spreading anywhere else. There are several other examples on the last that would not last anywhere else.Of course the real threat to the wildlife in fl. is not the invasive species but the out of control development going on here. In 50 yrs the fl. peninsula will look like hong kong and the only wildlife left here will be brown anoles, cuban treefrogs, roof rats, and cattle egrets none of which are an indigenous specie. But apparently there is more property tax money in condos and housing developments than there is in farms and woodlands and swamps so the politicians will give them all the go ahead. Bulldozers kill more burrowing owls and gopher tortoises in one week than nile monitors or pythons ever will but the fish and wild life does nothing about bulldozers.
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Have you ever read the invasive list? - MadAxeMan, Mon Feb 11 09:16:49 2008