Underground seed banks in South Africa that date back over 130 years have been found to contain fynbos seeds that are alive. These seed banks are natural storage areas in the soil where certain plants ...

You can even find invasive alien plants in Antarctica. Pine trees were introduced into southern Africa following European colonization in the 1650s for timber.

On June 8, 2011, the journal Nature published a commentary by 19 ecologists who urged conservationists to “assess organisms ...

Invasive bugweed are spreading rapidly in Melville and the Koppies, threatening local biodiversity, however Wendy Carstens advises fighting to eradicate these alien invaders and preserving the ...

For example, herbaceous plants are the prevailing life form among alien species in Kruger, with 46% already naturalised and 13% invasive. South America is the source of most of Kruger’s ...

Following the success of the BioBlitz initiative, in which some classes from the middle schools of Posada and Torpè were involved on March 14 in research activities on alien plants in the Posada ...

This initiative, scheduled for implementation over three financial years from 2023/24 to 2025/26, aims to clear invasive alien plants from ecologically and agriculturally significant lands.