West Cumbria Rivers Trust (WCRT) is encouraging communities to form "balsam bashing" teams to help remove it because it outcompetes native plants, reduces biodiversity and leaves riverbanks bare in ...

Volunteers are sought to remove the plant, which mainly grows along river banks and wet woodland, on 23 May during the school half-term holiday. Bury Council said people of all ages, including those ...

Britons have been told to rip up a quick-spreading invasive plant but have been warned not to put the species into garden waste bins. Volunteers are needed at Burrs Country Park in Bury, Greater ...

Purple jewelweed can aggressively replace native vegetation along Algoma’s shorelines,” said Derissa Vincentini, Northern Ontario Regional Coordinator, Invasive Species Cen ...

New research has revealed the damaging impact of Himalayan balsam on river ecosystems. A three-year study led by Dr James Hardwick, a lecturer in earth sciences at the University of Stirling, has ...