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minus-squareBarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 months agoThat brings up an interesting point, they’ve been here 400 years, at one point does something stop being classified as invasive? If we say never, then the term invasive kind of loses all meaning, but I wonder where the logical cutoff might be and how it’s defined.
minus-squareKlear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·3 months agoThey are actively spread by people even know and they are pushing other species to extinction, but yeah, maybe let’s not call them invasive and solve the problem that way.
That brings up an interesting point, they’ve been here 400 years, at one point does something stop being classified as invasive?
If we say never, then the term invasive kind of loses all meaning, but I wonder where the logical cutoff might be and how it’s defined.
They are actively spread by people even know and they are pushing other species to extinction, but yeah, maybe let’s not call them invasive and solve the problem that way.