Ibiza’s invasive snakes are doing more than hunting lizards; researchers found their spread is accelerating, reducing the time to local lizard loss from more than 10 years to about 3

An invasive snake species is rapidly driving the Ibiza wall lizard towards extinction. This non-native snake arrived on imported olive trees and now dominates the island’s ecosystem. Lizard populations are disappearing three times faster in newly invaded areas than before. Control efforts have removed thousands of snakes, but the invasion continues to spread. This situation highlights the vulnerability of island ecosystems to introduced predators.
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