SAPIA NEWS No. 22 special editionThis special issue of SAPIA News has been prompted by a SAPIA survey of invasive alien plants in the Eastern Cape during October. The region surveyed stretched from Venterstad in the north to Cradock, Somerset East, Fort Beaufort, Hogsback, Grahamstown, Port Alfred, Kenton on Sea and Alexandria. The diversity of the indigenous vegetation, which includes the Grassland, Nama-Karoo, Savanna, Thicket and Fynbos biomes, is matched by the vast array of alien plant species that have become invasive or naturalised. This SAPIA News will focus mainly on the emerging invaders, which without intervention are likely to expand and could become major invaders.
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A new conservation status for one of Earth’s last great spaces, the Great Karoo |
