Global report: Invasive non-native species surge, harming biodiversity & the economy

Thousands of invasive species introduced to new ecosystems around the world are causing more than $423 billion in estimated losses to the global economy every year by harming nature, damaging food systems and threatening human health, a wide-ranging scientific report published on Monday has found.

The costs have at least quadrupled every decade since 1970, according to the report, which was based on 2019 data. Researchers warned that the cost figures were conservative estimates because of the challenges in accounting for all effects.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/climate/invasive-species-cost-ipbes.html

USNPS will have its share of challenges developing the new NMon honoring Emmett Till and his mother

MONEY, Miss. — Nothing much is left of the notorious grocery store in the Mississippi Delta, just a roofless pile of red bricks and rotting wood that’s covered by a green tangle of vines and weeds.

Only a roadside sign next to a towering magnolia tree tells the story of what happened in this tiny community on the evening of Aug. 24, 1955, when Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago, went to Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market to buy some candy and then whistled outside at the white woman working behind the counter. Four days later, he was abducted and lynched.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/neglected-emmett-till-sites-pose-a-monumental-test-in-miss/

Canada | New wilderness area designated in Nova Scotia, including lake eyed as water source for mine

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - The Nova Scotia government has announced a new provincial wilderness area in Guysborough County, protecting a lake that has been eyed as a water source for a proposed gold mine.

Agriculture Minister Greg Morrow said Monday that the Archibald Lake Wilderness Area will cover nearly 700 hectares of old-growth forest, lakes and wetland near Nova Scotia's eastern shore. The area includes Archibald Lake, McDonald and Rocky Lake, which feed into Archibald Brook, a tributary of the St. Mary's River.

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/new-n-s-wilderness-area-includes-old-growth-forest-lakes-and-animal-habitat-1.6537923