Brian van Wilgen, one of many authors of a brand new e-book on the ecology and administration of certainly one of Africa’s most harmful weeds, visited this closely invaded space close to Moshi in Tanzania in 2019. Prosopis timber kind dense thickets to extend the problem that herbivorous mammals expertise in getting access to grazing or water or shifting between totally different areas. Photograph: Jano Barnard.
In densely invaded areas, the timber can devour about 50% of the annual rainfall of the area, severely depleting groundwater
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