Rivers, canals, marshes, peat bogs, arms of the sea, lagoons and ponds make up the network of aquatic ecosystems that coexist in the Ebro Delta, a network of interconnected networks that are difficult to control, the perfect framework for the complex skein of invasive alien...
Cristina Yuste/EFEverde for Lifeinvasaqua.- The control of the Eichornia crassipes, in which Spain has invested 35 million euros since 2005 and which in Portugal mobilizes equally important economic and human resources, has rekindled the debate in the neighboring country about the convenience of using chemical products. For...
Cristina Yuste/EFEverde for Lifeinvasaqua.- Up to two and a half meters long and weighing more than one hundred kilos, the catfish, one of the most voracious invasive exotic species in our rivers but not very demanding with the quality of the water, arrived from Central Europe...
The European Union recognizes some 12,000 exotic species, of which 15 percent are invasive. The budget to control invasive species is close to 12.5 billion euros a year. A species is exotic when it establishes itself outside its native environment, almost always caused by human action. When a...