Albizia article on BBC

[eigoya]

First I've heard of this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-28132555

[Lee M-S]

Anybody know how to find the website for this project?

The article doesn't actually say who is doing it, or give an URL to participate.
They quote somebody from Nature Conservancy, but when I followed the NC link at the bottom of the article, I just got their main page and searches for Hawaii came up blank. Wandering around their site didn't find the images, either.

Of course I wanna look up my house!

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[PaulW]

http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/reg...mpaign.xml

[Rene Siracusa]

Sen. Ruderman got the funding for albizia control, so you could get info from his office. The Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC) is working on this - they're in the phone book.

[Peter Epperson]

That's interesting. 20 or so years ago I got a packet of albizia seeds from the Nature Conservancy in the mail. The envelope said to go out and plant these seeds because albizia is the worlds fastest growing tree and it will help with reforesting. At the time the trees weren't such a threat here but it still didn't seem like a very good idea. I threw them out. Now the same people are trying to eradicate non-native species.

[Bullwinkle]

My mentor at the time Jimmy Sleeper wrote a reply to the US Department of agriculture about the invasive vinca. His premise "at what point do invasive species become naturalised" 10,100 or 1000 years?

sure threw 'em for a loop ..... they dropped the issue

[PaulW]

The article doesn't mention albizias.

[eigoya]

I see what you mean, I assumed fast growing Austrailia tree was Albizia, but when I googled Australian fern tree a completely different plant came up ( which I have never noticed here). I wonder if the BBC got the name wrong, or if there is another calamity out there......

[Carey]

Lee, you can also access this Kauai Island study directly from Digitalglobes website through this article:
http://www.digitalglobeblog.com/2014/06/...veforests/

and their Tomnod platform:
http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/tnck...rce=dgblog

[Lee M-S]

Thanks for the links!

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