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[DMasker]

Look up the damage done to drainages by the zebra mussel. The damage inflicted to levee systems by large aussie Charax sp. crayfish to to US levee systems. Another route would be the crayfish virus that occurred in europe a couple of decades ago. In an effort to propagate Cambarus (Louisiana) crays in europe, a virus that the US crays evolved an immunity to nearly wiped out native european crayfish populations.

You beat me to it! The great lakes have been invaded by these little buggers.

 

[Gervahlt]

Look up the Coqui tree frogs in Hawaii. They're not even replacing native frogs in the environment, but simply moving in and destroying native wildlife that didn't evolve with this kind of predator. There's also a large "nuisance" factor here with a lot of financial cost incurred (or at least at risk).

 

[Egon]

That's a tough argument because ya got to define "bad". Is "bad" just bad for man or is "bad" bad for the world? For example Oddball's comment: damage done to drainages by the zebra mussel Disclaimer: I'm only using oddball comment cuz he's a nice guy and hopefully wont ban me!

Drainages are man made and the zebra mussels were introduced by man and man is saying zebra mussels are "bad" ask the zebra mussels what they think? Of course I'm trying to make a point.....

Zebra mussels have adapted (by chance, evolution, what ever) to get sucked up into bilge tanks on boats to be transported to other bodies of water. Same way coconuts float to islands and populate there. Zebra mussels are bad - coconuts are good ???

How about when the world was one land mass and then it breaks apart to only slam into each other hundreds of millions of years later. Think about the species introduced when north and south america collied or when India slammed into asia. Big fish eat little fish

Man is a part of the evolutionary picture. Other species have adapted to take advantage of us. Dogs, cats, zebra mussels.......

One theory I subscribe to is "survival of the fittest". If man introduces a species and it carries on to successfully populate an area, then it wins or increases it's chances to win the survival game. We are part of that process. Extinction is not good or bad, it's just a part of evolution. Man and what we do on this planet is also just a part of evolution.

Yes this is a BAD rant. LOL Good luck with your project!

 

[Oddball]

Look up the Coqui tree frogs in Hawaii. They're not even replacing native frogs in the environment, but simply moving in and destroying native wildlife that didn't evolve with this kind of predator. There's also a large "nuisance" factor here with a lot of financial cost incurred (or at least at risk).

There's also the problem with the mongoose in HI. They were introduced to eradicate the rat problem in HI. Turns out the mongoose is a day hunter and the rats are night foragers. So, not only does HI still have a rat problem, they also have a mongoose population problem. Since the mongoose introduction, there have been significant drops in native bird populations and there are also no snakes left in the HI islands.

 

[immunknyc]

snake heads eating whole lakes dry of fish that eat mosquitos human population destroyed by malaria.. asian beetles with no predators in central park eating the whole ting bare causing chain reactions.. Vines in Hawaii that will strangle the whole island. lots of things destroy environments .. Humans and our wastes, co2 destroying planet. Ask the dinosaurs what 3 degrees did to them..