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But there is another invasive species which has contributed to a half-a-billion-dollar industrycoffee...
Published by the Biodiversity Collaborative and the Nature Conservation Foundation, the book is an effort of six ecologists, conservationists and biodiversity academics to document Indias alien invasive species...
Citizen initiatives and public interest can take efforts to stem plants like the destroyer only so far.Larger policy questions on how to combat invasive species in ecosystems and save degraded landscapes were part of the discussion..
The problem is extremely serious with huge stretches of our land taken over by invasive species like lantana camara, said Udhayan A, director of the Advanced Institute of Wildlife Conservation in Tamil Nadu and former Indian Forest Services officer who was one of the invited speakers...
He spoke of the Tamil Nadu governments Policy on Invasive Plants and Ecological Restoration (TN-PIPER) which is the first state policy in India aimed at addressing harmful invasive species..
