LISI Update

LISI Update

Valerie Selby, LISI Chair Invasive non-native species (INNS) are one of the largest threats to global biodiversity after habitat loss and destruction. The London Invasive Species Initiative (LISI) was created in response to this issue around 2007/8 and brings together...
Knotweed Undercover

Knotweed Undercover

Karen Harper, LISI Manager By now, we should all be aware of the potential impacts that Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica), an invasive non-native species, can have on local biodiversity, on built structures and on our local amenity. It is important to know how to...

Creating opportunities

Philippa Burrell, Director Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre, explains how third generation data are already changing the way people work in the region. A simple ‘data in, data out’ service had been available in Oxfordshire and Berkshire before...
Japanese Knotweed in the UK and London

Japanese Knotweed in the UK and London

Invasive species in London Lyndsey Cox, GiGL Community Manager Japanese Knotweed creeping towards an east London pavement (Gordon Joly CC BY-SA 2.0) A non-native species is classed as any that didn’t naturally occur before people first arrived in the UK. Non-natives...

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