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Mike Lee, Senior Research Scientist, South Australian Museum; Flinders University

Invasive species do much more damage in Australia and NZ than elsewhere. But why?

Michael Lee/SA Museum, CC BY-NC

If you had to pick the countries where invasive species pose the biggest problems, you probably wouldn’t think of Australia.

The continent has some of the world’s strictest biosecurity, a small human population and a comparatively short period of colonial occupation. It is also girt by sea. All of this should make introduced species less of an issue.

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