Remove invasive alien species

For millennia, people have brought plants and animals to Zanzibar from all over the world – many now established as important long-standing staples of diet, culture and landscape. 

Yet a few of these introduced species have had a less benign impact on the ecological landscape and have made themselves a little too much at home. They don’t just breed well in wild spaces, they actively displace existing wild species, spread disease, or even take over completely, to become pests of field and forest.

They prevent other things growing in various ways such as producing natural herbicides in their leaves and fruits which are unpalatable to grazing animals or make the soil inhospitable to new seedlings, or they simply grow faster than the native competition, blocking light.

INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES TO ERADICATE

The invasive House Crow deserves a chapter of its own for the impact it has had on wild bird species (and domestically stealing animal food and eating baby chickens), and impacting whole forest ecosystems spreading seeds of invasive plants in its droppings.

These are not friends to our wildlife gardens, and are best removed. We have compiled a list of the worst offenders that we recommend removing as thoroughly as you can. Lest they become the only life left.

INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES TO ERADICATE

The following plants (and animals) are not part of the original flora & fauna of the Zanzibar Archipelago and have become so well established in wild ecosystems that they prevent wild species from thriving.

We recommend you identify and remove these species from your landscaping altogether, to allow space for wild species that are more harmonious.

VIEW THE full INVASIVE SPECIES CHECKLIST!

INVASIVE SPECIES: