A few years ago I was fortunate enough to work with a PhD student on her work in identifying the relationship between South African Policy, Biodiversity and Invasive Alien Species. What was interesting for me while listening to these transcripts was the way that stakeholder engagement took place and how this affected IAS project implementation on the ground.
Like the aim of the European Environment Agency (EEA) report entitled: "The Impacts of Invasive Alien Species in Europe", I believe that proper IAS project implementation can only be successful once there are proper public and stakeholder awareness and education programmes in place about these impacts that concentrates on themes within the environment and the economy. "Once the public knows, the goal grows" - think I will coin that one.
The impacts that the report focuses on are biodiversity, ecosystem service, human health and economic activities. This report not only highlights threats The report also highlights certain recommendation to specifically deal with IAS within Europe, however, I do believe that although these recommendation are location specific there could be some application within the South African or developmental location context.
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