| Central Question: What impact can the introduction of new species have on an ecosystem? Guiding Thought Question: While working as a state forestry specialist you notice the growth of a non-native weed start growing in your conservation area. As the weed spreads further local farmers introduce non-native rabbits to the area that are known to feed on the plants to protect their crops from the encroaching weeds, but they quickly multiply and start eating other plants as well, resulting in numbers on non-native rabbits decreasing. How do you address the issue? What recommendations do you make? Today's Learning Objective: Students will analyze critical effects of the introduction of invasive species on an ecosystem and the distributions of native species by looking at case studies and acting out the introduction |  |
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32 Comments
Maxwell Lambert
11/6/2019 11:29:44 pm
Unfortunately you have to try and kill off all the rabbits much like the invasive goats of the Galapagos islands. This will be extremely difficult considering they multiply quickly and are small, quick, good hiders. If complete extermination is proved impossible then any way to control population should be carried out. e.i open hunts or even rewards.
Sam Baratta
11/11/2019 07:35:07 am
Gotta kill all the invasive rabbits, can't have another Australia.
Slacker
11/11/2019 07:36:11 am
One could address the issue in many ways but I would rather leave it to the proffesionals. I would hire New Zealand hunters to find and kill them.
Evan Newhouse
11/11/2019 07:36:20 am
A potential solution to the problem is to try to get rid of the rabbits, whether its by encouraging people to hunt the rabbits or spending a lot of money and investing in exterminators or paying people to kill them. If you don't want to go that route you could potentially move the protected zone to where the rabbits aren't at yet and then prevent the rabbits from getting into the protected area.
Alexis Blankenfeld
11/11/2019 07:36:25 am
Personally i do not like killing animals some may do it but i wont. I would capture them, move them somewhere else where they can grow and flourish in another area that is similar to that one.
Smith, Ethan
11/11/2019 07:36:41 am
You would probably have to kill them because there would not be much else you could do without potentially harming other plants and animals
Nawal Zahid
11/11/2019 07:37:30 am
You would have to either kill off some of the non-native rabbit population or capture and move them to a location where they would be considered native instead of invasive. You would also have to find a way to decrease the non-native weed population, which can be through the use of pesticide, introducing a native species to consume the weeds, or uprooting and relocating them.
Liv
11/11/2019 07:38:32 am
You'd have to kill off all the rabbits. rip.
Amaya Thompson
11/11/2019 07:38:39 am
To handle the increasing population you can either move them to a place that will fit their way of living or just kill them off
Figswald
11/11/2019 07:39:02 am
The only solution here is to trap and relocate as many of the rabbits as possible, or you can put a bounty on them and pay hunters. As far as the plants, controlled burns would be some big baller moves.
Gwen Carl
11/11/2019 07:39:21 am
I would kill all of the weed and that would kill most of the rabbits, because you would take out their main food source and if that didn’t kill all the rabbits I would send hunters to kill the rest of the rabbits and also bring in more native species of rabbits to increase their own population
Blake
11/11/2019 07:39:41 am
Create an army of the rabbits and invade china. If we lose its solves the rabbit problem if i win i guess i own china.
Fatima A.
11/11/2019 07:40:38 am
kill all one sex of rabbits this way there’s no way of reproducing and you have a controlled population.
Arbuckle
11/11/2019 07:41:27 am
In order to get rid of the non-native rabbit species they will need to kill them or even capture them and send them to an area where they are native. Slowly the native rabbit species population will grow, which can be increased with human helped reproduction methods. As for the non-native weed they will most likely have to dig them out and continue to watch that plant population
Dessie
11/11/2019 07:41:42 am
I would suggest on killing off the rabbits for good. Yes it’s sad and hard because they reproduce quickly and are helping with eliminating the weeds but, they’re creating way more unnecessary damage.
Boy Baker
11/11/2019 07:42:36 am
a controlled burn that kills the invasive
Jackson
11/11/2019 07:46:24 am
Kill and use the rabbits for food or other uses or allow hunters to hunt them.
stock
11/12/2019 12:19:22 pm
You would need to remove the invasive species.
Lauren
11/12/2019 12:21:25 pm
I think they should do what they do for the goats in the Galapagos and snipe the rabbits. Or capture males and females and sterilize them so they can't reproduce.
Grey Gary
11/12/2019 12:23:46 pm
Next time, they should use animals native to the area to solve the problem rather then bringing in non-native animals. To solve the problem, they should target and capture the rabbits and then get rid of the weeds using native animals.
Hoover
11/12/2019 12:24:08 pm
You would have to kill off the invasive rabbits to protect the plants and other animals to prevent them from die off in their natural area
kyler harvey
11/12/2019 12:24:15 pm
you would have too look at which species is better to keep around whether its the invasive or the native is better too keep around.
Abby
11/12/2019 12:24:52 pm
Introducing a new species to an environment can greatly affect the ecosystem because the species may not have any natural predators, so it can take over an entire ecosystem.
Sydney
11/12/2019 12:25:00 pm
You would need to try to capture the rabbits and relocate them so that you don't have to kill them all but you still get rid of them.
Alex Jacobs
11/12/2019 12:25:05 pm
Allow hunters to hunt it like the goats in the Galapagos because once they increase too much they can disrupt plant life and the ecosystem around them since they aren’t native to that area
nellie
11/12/2019 12:26:17 pm
you would need to trap or kill the rabbits first and stop them from reproducing then remove the weeds using a native species or by removal to stop the growth of the food source
gami
11/12/2019 12:26:24 pm
you would need to remove the rabbits, like kill them :(
Hannh Cochran
11/12/2019 12:26:52 pm
you would have to take out (kill) the rabbits and find alternate ways to stop the weeds. introducing non native predators would only hurt the area more.
Stevens with a v
11/12/2019 12:27:30 pm
You would have to find a way to get rid of the rabbits either by killing them off in the most humane way possible or somehow directing them out of the area and relocating them otherwise it would cause unnecessary damage.
paige
11/12/2019 12:31:04 pm
you would need to remove the bad rabbits from that area.
Avery Wagoner
11/12/2019 12:32:07 pm
You could sterlilize the rabbits so they stop breeding. This will reduce the rabbit population and continue to remove the invasive weed.
Forget
11/12/2019 12:39:49 pm
get rid of the non-native rabbits through capturing them and relocate to a place they are native, or kill them all off. Leave a Reply. |
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