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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5:If by definition an invasive species is a 'plant or animal that is not native to a specific location, and tends to spread and cause damage to the environment', then why humans aren't considered an invasive species? Do we not perfectly fit that definition as a species?
gpt
Yeah, we pretty much are, though we tend to think of "not native" as "humans brought it here and it didn't spread here on its own". You could look at things like National Parks or the Antarctic Treaties as being similar to trying to control an invasive species - "this is one of the few places that humans haven't invaded and destroyed yet, so let's put controls in place to try to keep it that way".