Invasive species are capable of causing extinctions of native plants and animals, reducing biodiversity, competing with native organisms for limited resources, and altering habitats. ... Since lionfish are not native to Atlantic waters, they have very few predators
In their natural habitat, there are predators that balance the lionfish population. In the western Atlantic Ocean, they have no natural predators, so their population is rapidly increasing. This increase may lead to an imbalance in the ecosystem.
Pinckney's Treaty, also commonly known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.
