Wildlife officers have busted an illegal cockroach-breeding operation in rural Australia, seizing a skin-crawling haul worth more than $100,000 on the black market for exotic bugs.
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Australia has an isolated ecosystem because it’s an island. If you breed a bunch of invasive species and they get out, that can cause a lot of damage. I think they had this problem with the bullfrog and now can’t get rid of it.