Invasive alien plants awareness
The control and eradication of invasive alien plants is a major priority of the Botanical Society of Namibia due to the devastating impacts they have on Namibia's native flora and fauna, as well as on livelihoods.
Read more about alien plants in Namibia, how to identify them and the problems caused by invasive alien plants.
What are we doing? BotSoc:
- has embarked upon an ambitious biocontrol project to introduce two different biological control agents
- supports the Cactus Clean-up project which manually removes invasive aliens
- produces "Alien Watch" posters which provide information about nasty aliens that should be removed
- organises and supports public participation cactus-clearing events
- is a member of the Namibian Invasive Alien Species Working Group.