‘Rapid Response’ Plan To Tackle Threats To Our Native Wildlife

May 29th, 2008

New measures were launched yesterday by the Government to tackle the threat that invasive foreign plants and animals pose to the country’s wildlife and economy.

Non-native species such as the purple Himalayan balsam plant and the American mink are claimed to do enormous damage to native wildlife in Wales and the rest of the UK and cost an estimated £2bn a year to tackle…