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Invasive plants hurt wildlife, ecosystem

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The Star (Kenya)

Publication Date
2017-06-13

A new research shows that invasive alien plant species introduced as ornamental plants at tourism facilities are spreading rapidly throughout the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, posing a major threat to plant and animal species. Scientists from the Centre of Agriculture and Bioscience International, Centre for Invasion Biology at the University of Stellenbosch and the Kenya Wildlife Service, writing in the journal Koedoe, identifi ed a number of invasive species in the Masai-Mara National Reserve.

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