Kenya Faces Devastating Prosopis Invasion - What Can Be Done

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Woody plant species have been deliberately introduced into many arid and semi-arid regions across the world as they can help combat desertification and provide resources - like fuelwood - to the rural poor. But some of these alien trees and shrubs have become invasive, having devastating effects on other species as well as people.

This is big problem in the mainly arid Baringo County, in Kenya's Rift valley as well as other counties north, east and south of the country.

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