More information: Urs Schaffner et al, The Ecology and Management of Invasive Prosopis Trees in Eastern Africa (2024). DOI: 10.1079/9781800623644.0000 Provided by CABI ...

A team of scientists led by CABI have conducted a new study which shows that three ways to fight the invasive Prosopis juliflora tree in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania all proved very effective in ...

An invasive evergreen tree, known as Prosopis juliflora, is quite the thirsty species. Prosopis has taken over large swaths of the Afar Region in Ethiopia and while one might think the added green ...

Prosopis trees not only use water throughout the year, but even consume more water during the dry season, when almost all native plants have shed their leaves.

Where there is a prosopis tree, there can’t be anything else. It will take up all the water and make the land dry,” says Moge Abdi Omar, the project coordinator of Women and Pastoralist Youth ...

Hyderabad: By redeveloping the botanical garden on the campus, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) aims to create a gene bank of local varieties of wild fruits and ...

Prosopis invasions: Battle against Africa’s worst weed. In densely invaded areas, the trees can consume about 50% of the annual rainfall of the region, severely depleting groundwater ...

Prosopis answers to none of herders' traditional needs: "If an animal has ever eaten its leaves, only Allah has seen; if there's a use for this tree, only Allah knows it," says Ibrahim Hamadou ...

Prosopis juliflora, a large perennial shrub, grows up to 40 feet tall. The tree is native to Central and South America, but now occupies millions of acres in Africa, including countries such as ...

Large-scale removal of Banni’s invasive ‘mad tree’ Prosopis is not the solution: Study The researchers observed that mechanically removing Prosopis significantly increases native grassland ...

It is fast-growing, drought-resistant and sprawls over acres of land in Kenya's arid regions, but the rapidly spreading prosopis tree has become an environmental menace that many wish had never ...

-- A study finds that mechanically uprooting invasive Prosopis juliflora trees that have taken over the native Banni grassland of Gujarat helped restore native plant diversity.