Ross Shackleton News Today

In 2009, a village in southern India became a part of a long experiment. The Shola Trust, an NGO, trained the village’s Indigenous communities to harvest stems of a vibrant flowering shrub called lantana (Lantana camara), one of the world’s worst invasive species, and transform them into marketable pieces of furniture. The program had two […]

While the damage done by some invasives was clear, the notion that they were always an inherent threat to native ecosystems troubled some researchers.

When some researchers have suggested that certain alien species may help ecosystems, they’ve been met with fierce debate from invasion scientists.