[APWG] NEWS: Moving on up

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10199352&fsrc=RSS

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Moving on up

Nov 26th 2007
>From Economist.com
Conservationists have begun to broach a taboo

HUNDREDS of years ago, nobody worried about the deleterious effects of 
deliberately transplanting species. When Europeans migrated overseas, they 
brought wheat, barley, rye, cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats for food and 
horses for transport. An angling society brought European fish to 
Australia. A group of bardophiles introduced all the species of birds 
Shakespeare mentioned into the United States. They released 100 pairs of 
starlings in New York's Central Park; today it is one of America's most 
common birds.

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