https://www.usgs.gov/publications/prevention-early-detection-and-containment-invasive-nonnative-plants-hawaiian-islands
Introduction: Invasive, non-native plants (or environmental weeds) have long been recognized as a major threat to the native biodiversity of oceanic islands...
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https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/2107/20130525/dozens-hawaiian-plants-animals-gain-endangered-species-status.htm
Thirty-five plants and three snails native to Hawaii were given endangered species status Friday in a move that conservationists are praising as a great coup...
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