not native

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Vets David Buckland and Graham Charlesworth argue that the sheep are not native to St Kilda and have undergone thousands of years of domestication, so should treated the same way as sheep on farms are.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

Livestock not native to the desert have grazed and trampled the plants tortoises like to eat, spreading unpalatable nonnative grasses in their wake.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024

Mule deer are not native to Catalina; they were introduced nearly a century ago for sport hunting.

From New York Times • May 31, 2024

But it is not native to any wilderness in that country.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2024

The principal advocate of those who argued that the tiger was not native to Africa was Andrew Masondo, an ANC leader from the Cape who had also been a lecturer at Fort Hare.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela