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Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years by DanBC on Thursday March 01, 2012 @01:51PM (#3653438)
April 2003 - Attempts to begin a cull of hedgehogs on North Uist in the Western Isles have got under way.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2920067.stm)

April 2005 - Animal rights activists are trying to rescue hedgehogs as an annual cull gets under way in the Outer Hebrides.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4406675.stm)

October 2005 - Protest over annual hedgehog cull

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4390054.stm)

April 2007 - The board of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has decided to suspend its cull of hedgehogs in the Western Isles.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/63...)

February 2010 - Hebridean hedgehogs: a prickly issue The Uists cull has already cost more than £1m, but we should question the causal link between bird and hedgehog populations

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/25/hedgehog...)

February 2011 - £1.3m hedgehog cull to save islands' birds eggs 'fails'

(http://www.scotsman.com/news/163_1_3m_hedgehog_cull_to_save_...)

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Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years by JL2010 on Thursday March 01, 2012 @02:55PM (#3653725)
Also: Australia's efforts against the cane toad, invasive fish species all over the world introduced by humans for "sport", Florida's efforts against the Burmese python (which has become the dominant predator - even swallowing local adult alligators).
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Re:Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years by pyre on Thursday March 01, 2012 @04:28PM (#3654131) 

  > invasive fish species all over the world
  > introduced by humans for "sport"
Not just for "sport," IIRC there are some invasive species in the Mississippi River that got there when one of the floods engulfed some fish farms/hatcheries that had some exotic fish there to help maintain pests/algae/etc.

Also, Florida has a lot of iguanas (which are non-native), especially in the Everglades, you just don't hear much about it because the pythons are a larger issue.

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