Invasive alien plants are everywhere. You'll find them in fields, forests, and in your backyard. The good news? We can eat some of them, like knotweed. (Alex Wilkie) This is the second of a two-part ...

Lake Naivasha, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya is becoming increasingly unnavigable. Water hyacinth, the world’s most widespread invasive species, is blanketing the lake, choking its fish and leaving ...

There are many different Grow a Garden events that increase the value of your plants. Each one comes with its own mutations that give plants a different appearance. Find out in our guide when the ...

Volunteers joined Jozi Trails at Florence Bloom Bird Sanctuary to remove invasive Verbena bonariensis, a harmful weed threatening indigenous grassland plants and local biodiversity.

The Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC), in collaboration with the Ministry of Forest and Environment and other partner organizations, organized a two-day maiden National Conference on Invasive ...

The Invasive Alien Species Programme (IASP) in KwaZulu-Natal has been allocated R59 million, as reported in the KZN Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs’ 2024/2025 ...

The lack of a standardised method to explicitly link water benefits to invasive alien plant removal left a significant opportunity untapped, according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials, ...

Alien plants and animals cost Europe over $1.5 trillion in the last six decades, according to a new study, indicating the global economic impact of such species could be several times higher than ...

Effective management of invasive alien vegetation is one of the most critical ways to protect South Africa’s natural water sources. According to WWF South Africa’s Water Gains Calculator Tool, in 2025 ...

Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, Sello Seitlholo, and the Rhodes University Centre for Biological Control (CBC) have released weevil species to tackle the invasive alien aquatic plant at ...