Alien species threaten food supply, public health and cost USD 423bn
Non-native species displaced either by global trade and travel or by climate change pose “a severe global threat” to local biodiversity, food security as well as public health, new report finds.
By Liza Tetley / Bloomberg
This “underappreciated, underestimated, and often unacknowledged” threat from invasive alien species imposes a global economic cost of more than USD 423bn annually in 2019 and plays a key role in the majority of plant and animal extinctions, according to a report from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services published Monday.
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