How to Exterminate the Invaders: Playing Dangerously with the Pandora’s Box of Genetic Engineering

How to Exterminate the Invaders: Playing Dangerously with the Pandora’s Box of Genetic Engineering

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Spivey,  Czechia Posts English,  2022.

Man has dragged alien species to new continents, sometimes inadvertently and often intentionally. That’s how she got from America to Europe Musk Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) whose nutria (Myocastor coypus). He traveled in the opposite direction across the Atlantic, for example common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) or field lark (Alauda arvensis). Sometimes the transoceanic import passed without consequences, other times it started a natural disaster. Undoubtedly, the most famous destructive invasion was caused by the deliberate importation of the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) to Australia.