Invasive Alien Plants and Their Management in Africa
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INVASIVE INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS ALIEN AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN PLANTS Arne Witt is currently the Regional AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN Gordon Boy is a freelance writer, reporter and (Africa and Asia) Coordinator for Invasive editor who specialises in topics relating to natural Species for CABI, based in Nairobi, Kenya. history, the environment and conservation. Born He still is and has been actively involved in in Kitale, in western Kenya, he has travelled a number of regional UNEP-GEF projects in AFRICA AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA widely in sub-Saharan Africa, as a journalist. His Africa, the Caribbean and Asia dealing with first book,Snowcaps on the Equator, published in issues pertaining to the strengthening of the The Removing Barriers to Invasive Plant Management in Africa Project, implemented in four African London in 1989, was about the mountains of East policy/legislation framework with regard to nations (Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia) between 2005 and 2010, stands out as one of the most and Central Africa. invasive species, fostering regional cooperation with regard to their management, creating wide-ranging and ambitious campaigns yet undertaken in the global effort to ‘scale up’ the fight against Since then, hundreds of his articles and features awareness about the threats they pose and damaging impacts arising from the spread of invasive alien species. Gordon Boy & Arne Witt have been published in magazines, and for eight building capacity for the implementation of years (2000–2008) he was the Editor of Swara – the sustainable IAS management and prevention This informative and beautifully illustrated book is one of many outcomes of this four-year UNEP/GEF quarterly journal of the East African Wild Life Society. strategies. He is also involved in a number of project. It sheds valuable light, not just on the huge challenges facing sub-Saharan Africa and many More recently, he has produced a number other IAS projects in Africa and Asia. other parts of the developing world wracked by alien plant invasions, but also on the broader global of acclaimed natural history and ecology Prior to joining CABI Africa, Witt worked in South dimensions of the invasive alien species’ menace – now universally recognised as one of the gravest guidebooks, while also writing and editing Africa as a Senior Researcher and Division threats to the ecological, social and economic well-being of the planet. scientific and project reports for global Manager for the Plant Protection Research environment and conservation agencies. Institute of the Agricultural Research Council He now lives in Nairobi. CABI-ARC Ethiopian Institute for Council for Scientific and National Agricultural Zambia Environmental (ARC-PPRI). He has extensive experience Box 633-00621 Agricultural Research (EIAR) Industrial Research (CSIR) Research Organization Management Agency researching the biological control of invasive Nairobi Box 2003 Box M 32 (NARO) (ZEMA) (formerly ECZ) alien species, particularly plants. Kenya Addis Ababa Accra Box 295 Plot no. 6975 T: +254 (0)20 7224450/62 Ethiopia Ghana Entebbe Cnr of Church and Suez AFRICA Witt has a PhD with the University of the www.cabi.org T: +251 11 6462633 T: +233 21 77655 Uganda Roads, Ridgeway, Lusaka www.eiar.gov.et www.csir.org,gh T: +256 41 320512 Zambia Witwatersand. He has a Masters of Science in www.naro.go.ug T: +260 211 2544023/59 Entomology and Conservation Biology, as well www.zema.org.zm as a Bachelors of Science in Geography and Entomology. Space for bar code with Boy How a multi-country ‘WAR ON Weeds’ project is HELPING AN INFESTED ISBN included Witt CONTINENT TO STEM THE COLONISING ONSLAUGHT OF INVASIVE SPECIES UNEP EIAR INVASIVE INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS ALIEN AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN PLANTS Arne Witt is currently the Regional AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN Gordon Boy is a freelance writer, reporter and (Africa and Asia) Coordinator for Invasive editor who specialises in topics relating to natural Species for CABI, based in Nairobi, Kenya. history, the environment and conservation. Born He still is and has been actively involved in in Kitale, in western Kenya, he has travelled a number of regional UNEP-GEF projects in AFRICA AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA widely in sub-Saharan Africa, as a journalist. His Africa, the Caribbean and Asia dealing with first book,Snowcaps on the Equator, published in issues pertaining to the strengthening of the The Removing Barriers to Invasive Plant Management in Africa Project, implemented in four African London in 1989, was about the mountains of East policy/legislation framework with regard to nations (Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia) between 2005 and 2010, stands out as one of the most and Central Africa. invasive species, fostering regional cooperation with regard to their management, creating wide-ranging and ambitious campaigns yet undertaken in the global effort to ‘scale up’ the fight against Since then, hundreds of his articles and features awareness about the threats they pose and damaging impacts arising from the spread of invasive alien species. Gordon Boy & Arne Witt have been published in magazines, and for eight building capacity for the implementation of years (2000–2008) he was the Editor of Swara – the sustainable IAS management and prevention This informative and beautifully illustrated book is one of many outcomes of this four-year UNEP/GEF quarterly journal of the East African Wild Life Society. strategies. He is also involved in a number of project. It sheds valuable light, not just on the huge challenges facing sub-Saharan Africa and many More recently, he has produced a number other IAS projects in Africa and Asia. other parts of the developing world wracked by alien plant invasions, but also on the broader global of acclaimed natural history and ecology Prior to joining CABI Africa, Witt worked in South dimensions of the invasive alien species’ menace – now universally recognised as one of the gravest guidebooks, while also writing and editing Africa as a Senior Researcher and Division threats to the ecological, social and economic well-being of the planet. scientific and project reports for global Manager for the Plant Protection Research environment and conservation agencies. Institute of the Agricultural Research Council He now lives in Nairobi. CABI-ARC Ethiopian Institute for Council for Scientific and National Agricultural Zambia Environmental (ARC-PPRI). He has extensive experience Box 633-00621 Agricultural Research (EIAR) Industrial Research (CSIR) Research Organization Management Agency researching the biological control of invasive Nairobi Box 2003 Box M 32 (NARO) (ZEMA) (formerly ECZ) alien species, particularly plants. Kenya Addis Ababa Accra Box 295 Plot no. 6975 T: +254 (0)20 7224450/62 Ethiopia Ghana Entebbe Cnr of Church and Suez AFRICA Witt has a PhD with the University of the www.cabi.org T: +251 11 6462633 T: +233 21 77655 Uganda Roads, Ridgeway, Lusaka www.eiar.gov.et www.csir.org,gh T: +256 41 320512 Zambia Witwatersand. He has a Masters of Science in www.naro.go.ug T: +260 211 2544023/59 Entomology and Conservation Biology, as well www.zema.org.zm as a Bachelors of Science in Geography and Entomology. Space for bar code with Boy How a multi-country ‘WAR ON Weeds’ project is HELPING AN INFESTED ISBN included Witt CONTINENT TO STEM THE COLONISING ONSLAUGHT OF INVASIVE SPECIES UNEP EIAR INVASIVE INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS ALIEN AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN PLANTS Arne Witt is currently the Regional AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN Gordon Boy is a freelance writer, reporter and (Africa and Asia) Coordinator for Invasive editor who specialises in topics relating to natural Species for CABI, based in Nairobi, Kenya. history, the environment and conservation. Born He still is and has been actively involved in in Kitale, in western Kenya, he has travelled a number of regional UNEP-GEF projects in AFRICA AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA widely in sub-Saharan Africa, as a journalist. His Africa, the Caribbean and Asia dealing with first book,Snowcaps on the Equator, published in issues pertaining to the strengthening of the The Removing Barriers to Invasive Plant Management in Africa Project, implemented in four African London in 1989, was about the mountains of East policy/legislation framework with regard to nations (Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia) between 2005 and 2010, stands out as one of the most and Central Africa. invasive species, fostering regional cooperation with regard to their management, creating wide-ranging and ambitious campaigns yet undertaken in the global effort to ‘scale up’ the fight against Since then, hundreds of his articles and features awareness about the threats they pose and damaging impacts arising from the spread of invasive alien species. Gordon Boy & Arne Witt have been published in magazines, and for eight building capacity for the implementation of years (2000–2008) he was the Editor of Swara – the sustainable IAS management and prevention This informative and beautifully illustrated book is one of many outcomes of this four-year UNEP/GEF quarterly journal of the East African Wild Life Society. strategies. He is also involved in a number of project. It sheds valuable light, not just on the huge challenges facing sub-Saharan Africa and many More recently, he has produced a number other IAS projects in Africa and Asia. other parts of the developing world wracked by alien plant invasions, but also on the broader global of acclaimed natural history and ecology Prior to joining CABI Africa, Witt worked in South dimensions of the invasive alien species’ menace – now universally recognised as one of the gravest guidebooks, while also writing and editing Africa as a Senior Researcher and Division threats to the ecological, social and economic well-being of the planet. scientific and project reports for global Manager for the Plant Protection Research environment and conservation agencies.