Restoring Biodiversity - 7/15/2025
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Here is what we’ve been reading, watching and writing about over the past week…
Articles
U.S. Halts Livestock Imports From Mexico Again. Here Is The Reason Why
The U.S. has again halted livestock imports from Mexico after the parasitic New World screwworm fly closer to the border. In addition, The USDA has announced the launch an $8.5 million sterile fly dispersal facility in South Texas. It's anticipated to begin producing sterile male flies by the end of the year
These 'Crazy' Invasive Florida Pests Attack Mammals, Birds and Create Giant Supercolonies
Move over Burmese pythons and iguanas. This Florida invasive species numbers in the millions, asphyxiates its prey and creates huge supercolonies that are nearly impossible to eradicate. Meet tawny crazy ants.
Wolves Wreak Havoc on Cattle Herds in California
72 percent of wolf scat samples from the Lassen Pack—in western Lassen and northern Plumas counties—contained cattle DNA
Videos
The Miracle Dogs of Chernobyl Have Evolved Into Something New, Studies Show
Four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, something weird—but wonderful—is happening inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: the dogs that roam the radioactive area are rapidly evolving. And we don’t exactly know why.
Elk Restoration
This video on the restoration of elk in Kentucky and other Eastern states begins, “There is perhaps no higher calling for a wildlife conservation organization than restoring extirpated wildlife species back to their historic ranges.” How true, except in Texas, where our state game department with the support or acquiescence of major conservation organizations, removes all elk – a Texas native species – from all far-West Texas lands it manages, under the scientifically bogus theory that elk ‘compete’ with and thereby harm desert bighorn sheep, mule deer and pronghorn.
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