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Rapid expansion of ring-necked parakeets in UK sparks concern

In the past 20 years, the soundscape in the ancient wild, rolling landscape of Richmond Park has been transformed. Once you would have heard the chirrup of the stonechat, the chirp of the greater spotted woodpecker or the song of the skylark. Today, the auditory power of one bird dominates.

Rapid expansion of ring-necked parakeets in UK sparks concern

‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever

Like cholesterol clogging up an artery, it took just a couple of years for the quagga mussels to infiltrate the 5km (3-mile) highway of pipes under the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL). By the time anyone realised what was going on, it was too late.

‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever
Rapid expansion of ring-necked parakeets in UK sparks concern

Rapid expansion of ring-necked parakeets in UK sparks concern

In the past 20 years, the soundscape in the ancient wild, rolling landscape of Richmond Park has been transformed. Once you would have heard the chirrup of the stonechat, the chirp of the greater spotted woodpecker or the song of the skylark. Today, the auditory power of one bird dominates.

‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever

‘It’s an open invasion’: how millions of quagga mussels changed Lake Geneva for ever

Like cholesterol clogging up an artery, it took just a couple of years for the quagga mussels to infiltrate the 5km (3-mile) highway of pipes under the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL). By the time anyone realised what was going on, it was too late.

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