The fashion then was for collection and growing foreign species so the Spanish invaders going native was not seen as a problem.

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Some Americans may view this invasion of a foreign species as somehow fitting and just, given the takeover of so many American acres by invasive Japanese weeds like kudzu and knotweed.

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He said it was not clear if the bittern was one of the breeding birds from Leighton Moss or one of the species' foreign visitors, which come to Britain to overwinter and escape colder weather on the continent.

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Alongside these new Japanese species there are the larger and more familiar foreign funds: Ripplewood Holdings, which with J.

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Although conclusive evidence for life on Mars (or on any other foreign planet) has yet to turn up, humans are an impatient species.

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Fear of the foreign fish has even prompted an official government initiative to eradicate the bass over worries that the species will eat and eventually wipe out the nation's beloved ayu, chub and crucian carp.

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Rather than buying foreign exchange, policymakers can keep it out of the country, sequestering it abroad like a non-native species.

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