Europe races to stop lionfish, bullfrogs, and self-cloning crayfish before they spread

Europe races to stop lionfish, bullfrogs, and self-cloning crayfish before they spread

Conservationists are realizing that unusual wildlife sightings, like a lionfish in the Adriatic Sea, giant American bullfrogs in Belgian wetlands, and self-cloning crayfish in the Czech Republic, are all a part of ecosystem mismanagement issues across Europe. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which categorizes species based on their relative extinction risk, European conservation groups are trying to move more forc…