Winning Public Support for Invasive-Species Eradication

April Reese, SM
Last month, a bioethics panel made up of experts from about a dozen perspectivesincluding an ecologist, a geneticist, a lawyer, a hunter, and a M?ori leadergathered here for the first time to discuss the ethical and social challenges to eradicating invasive predators. At the same time, a separate group of researchers is getting ready to conduct a national survey aimed at gauging the public's tolerance for novel predator control technologies.The massive eradication effortdubbed Predator Free 2050calls for wiping out millions of brush-tailed possums, rats, and stoats (a type of...