Global Guardians: Controlling Invasive Species

Global Guardians: Controlling Invasive Species — page 1
Millions of kinds of plants and animals call Earth home These wonderful creatures live in many different environments from deserts to plains to oceans All the living organisms in an environment are part of a community of living and nonliving things called an ecosystem The plants and animals that naturally live and grow in an ecosystem are called native species Native means something belongs in an environment of native plants and animals They depend on each other to survive and keep their ecosystem healthy Sometimes new species invade or take over ecosystems Invasive species can hurt the species already living there as well as the ecosystem itself A healthy ecosystem has a balance CONSERVATION CLUES Invasive species are plants and animals that don’t naturally live in an area and that can cause a lot of harm to it MAKE WAY FOR INVADERS