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 they cause.
What are we doing?
- BotSoc has embarked upon an ambitious biocontrol project to introduce two biological control agents
- BotSoc supports the Cactus Clean-up project which manually removes invasive aliens
- BotSoc produces “Alien Watch” posters which provide information about aliens that should be removed
- BotSoc organises and supports public participation cactus-clearing events
- BotSoc is a member of the Namibian Invasive Alien Species Working Group.