Dr. Awash Teklehaimanot, director of the malaria program at the Earth Institute of Columbia University, said he worried that calls for eradication raised expectations too high, inviting frustration and a loss of political will.
French President Francois Hollande has called for "eradication" of the world's tax havens and told French banks they must declare all of their subsidiaries.
This typically results in the emergence of complex conflicts of interest, with some stakeholders calling for eradication or control of the invaders, while others promote their continued use (Shaanker et al. 2010; Kannan et al. 2014; Shackleton et al. 2014; van Wilgen and Richardson 2014).
Due to these issues and their potentially catastrophic consequences, scientists, environmental activists, educators, etc. have called for eradication of GM crops altogether.
Fiyaz Mughal, founder of Tell MAMA, which records anti-Muslim abuse, said the group's attempts to report far-right extremism, including voices that call for the eradication of Muslims, had been ignored by the social networking site.
Progress in the Americas was a major factor in the decision by WHO's World Health Assembly in 1988 to call for the eradication of polio from the globe by the year 2000.
Some advocates promote it as a 'wonder plant' while others call for its eradication, or contrast its positive and negative aspects, e.g. 'Boon or bane' (Tiwari 1999), 'Pest or providence, weed or wonder tree?' (Pasiecznik 1999), 'Invasive weed or valuable forest resource?' (Pasiecznik 2002).
In 1988, when polio was endemic in more than 125 countries affecting about 1000 children each day, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched after a World Health Assembly resolution called for the eradication of polio by the year 2000 [ 2, 3].
