{"id":3724,"date":"2010-10-20T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T18:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:47:50","slug":"invasive-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg-facts\/invasive-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens are Invading! The state of Invasive Species in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Canada, about 5%<\/strong> of mammal species and 27%<\/strong> of some plant species are invasive. Not all invasive species are harmful for an ecosystem but many are. Their populations take off because they usually don\u2019t have any natural predators. With so many new species crowding into a habitat and using up its resources, native species have a hard time keeping up, which leads to their population numbers dropping.<\/p>\n

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Purple loosestrife<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Some invasive species may look pretty, like the purple loosestrife, but they are actually very harmful for species around them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,409,453,931],"tags":[128,104],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-omg-plants","category-omg-facts","category-plants-2","category-all","tag-plants","tag-united-nations"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t