High risk of biological invasion from prayer animal release in China,Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

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High risk of biological invasion from prayer animal release in China
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ( IF 10.3 ) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 , DOI: 10.1002/fee.2647
Yuanbao Du ₁ , Yonghong Xi _{1,

2} , Zhixu Yang ₃ , Dangen Gu ₄ , Zhixin Zhang _{5,

6} , Weishan Tu _{1,

7,

8} , Yan Zeng ₉ , Ruina Cui ₁ , Zhuo Yan ₁ , Yusi Xin ₁₀ , Wenjia Jin ₁₁ , Yan Zhang ₁₁ , Le Yang ₁₂ , Baocheng Guo ₇ , Zunwei Ke ₁₃ , Jason R Rohr ₁₄ , Xuan Liu _{1,

2}

Affiliation

Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
School of Ecology and Nature Conservation Beijing Forestry University Beijing China
Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Key Laboratory of Recreational Fisheries Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Guangzhou China
Arctic Research Center Hokkaido University Sapporo Japan
CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio‐resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Innovation Academy of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
School of Life Sciences, USTC Life Sciences and Medicine University of Science and Technology of China Hefei China
Endangered Species Scientific Commission of the People's Republic of China Beijing China
School of Landscape and Architecture Beijing Forestry University Beijing China
International Union for Conservation of Nature China Beijing China
Tibet Plateau Institute of Biology Lhasa China
Institute of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering Hanjiang Normal University Shiyan China
Department of Biological Sciences, Environmental Change Initiative University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN

Prayer animal release (PAR)—a traditional “compassion-based” religious practice of releasing captive animals into the wild to improve the karma of the releaser—has been regarded as a major anthropogenic pathway facilitating species invasions worldwide. However, comprehensive, quantitative assessments of PAR-related invasion risks, crucial for the development of mitigation strategies, are lacking. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a literature review of the prevalence of PAR events and examined the overlap between PAR intensity across China and habitat suitability for non-native vertebrates released in these events. Our results revealed that 63% of the areas with high PAR intensity in China were also suitable for non-native vertebrate establishment, a degree of overlap that was greater than expected by chance. In addition, field surveys in China detected higher richness of non-native fishes at PAR sites than at non-PAR sites. These findings imply an overall high risk of biological invasions associated with PARs. We recommend interdisciplinary cooperation among scientists, religious groups, and government agencies to effectively manage PARs and reduce the associated bioinvasion risk.

更新日期：2024-01-09

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