Invasive Iquanas
Acting on a tip from me, Jennifer Forman Orth of the Invasive Species Weblog has written an excellent overview of a tense situation in south Florida in which escaped iguanas have become established on a small (3 sq. mi) island. Local residents are bedeviled by the problems created by a mushrooming population (now 30,000 strong) of this "mascot-turned-monster." Efforts by licensed animal control experts to reduce the population have run afoul of animal-rights activists who, all-too-often it seems, display more respect and sympathy for animals than for fellow humans.
posted by John L. Trapp at
12/21/2006 10:45:00 AM
2 Comments:
Forget it, John. Florida is destined to be overrun by every tropical species that dumb humans are apt to adopt.
Think of it as a sort of speeding up of those species distribution to the north. Would have happened in a 100,000 years anyway.
Until the next ice age anyway.
In the immortal words of Ernie Pyle,
"Shoot and Shovel"
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