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Invasive species on the menu at London restaurant

By Daniel MATTHEWS and Sylvain PEUCHMAURD A London restaurant is exploring whether eating invasive species such as grey squirrel, American Signal crayfish and Japanese knotweed could help fight their spread, but scientists remain sceptical. The idea behind several “invasive species supper clubs”, the last of which was served on Tuesday at “zero waste” Silo restaurant in east London, is to “creatively popularise species that are detrimental to the environment”, chef Douglas McMaster, who runs the […]

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Invasive species a growing and costly threat, key report to find

Invasive species that destroy forests, ravage crops and cause extinctions are a major and growing threat worldwide, a landmark UN-backed assessment is poised to report. From water hyacinth choking Lake Victoria in East Africa, to rats and brown snakes wiping out bird species in the Pacific, to mosquitoes exposing new regions to Zika, yellow fever, dengue and other diseases, tens of thousands of alien species have taken root — often literally — far from their […]

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