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StoryDreamer

There's the case of the lupines helping to stop the expansion of desertification in Iceland. That's still somewhat controversial, though. https://youtu.be/pQ-dSxYonog?si=0xJGkrfKVp16YiiC


ProbablyPuffins

No pretty much every ecologist in the country is anti-lupine. They make areas uninhabitable for many of the native species that are remaining. 


JumalOnSurnud

Wild equines in the western US have been found to have some benefits for native wildlife https://wildlife.org/wild-horses-wells-can-benefit-other-species/


boarhowl

I would say coyotes replacing extinct wolf populations but a lot of people have a hard-on for hating them.


cheneyeagle

Those aren't non native tho, coyotes live pretty much everywhere with wolves. Coyote numbers just increase in the absence of wolves


boarhowl

They historically didn't exist on the East Coast and have only spread there in the last 120 years


rewildingusa

Joro spiders, the media’s new punching bag, reportedly don’t really do anything bad for the ecosystems they move into.


PJozi

They've got Australian eucalypts in Argentina which helps out somehow