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Andrew M. Deines Ph.D Candidate University of Notre Dame Biological Sciences [email protected] globes.nd.edu
In honor of National Invasive Species Awareness Week (Feb. 28 - Mar. 4),
we want to bring your attention to a new on-line project, invasivore.org
<http://invasivore.org/>. Eating invasive species seems like an obvious
response to the ecological and economic harm caused by biological
invasions. However, we recognize that invasive species do not tend to
share the traits of species susceptible to eradication by harvest;
instead, education is the most effective tool in the management of
biological invasions.
At invasivore.org, our main goal is to promote invasive species
awareness by encouraging people to eat invasive species. Several times
each week we post recipes and other information on finding and preparing
a wide array of edible invasive species. We propose that this culinary
courage can be digested into the will to make informed decisions that
will ultimately prevent species introductions. We invite you to visit
invasivore.org, enjoy our recipes and use the site as a forum to discuss
the benefits and risks of invasive species, keeping them on your mind
and on your plate.
Invasivore.org grew out of an idea developed in an NSF-IGERT program,
Global Linkages of Biology, the Environment and Society (GLOBES) at the
University of Notre Dame.
