Gamba declaration
01 Apr 2008
Nearly 200 scientists today asked the Queensland and Northern Territory governments to ban the sale and planting of gamba grass, one of Northern Australia's most destructive invasive grasses.
The ecologists and weed scientists have signed a statement known as the Gamba Declaration, which demands that the Queensland and Northern Territory governments follow the Western Australia Government in banning the sale and planting of the invasive weed.
Gamba grass is one of Australia's worst environmental weeds and is responsible for fueling dangerous fires that are up to eight times hotter than natural fires, and which kill native savanna trees and grasses. The grass also threatens to turn vast areas of Northern Australia's wilderness into a gamba grass monoculture, with catastrophic consequences for native Australian species.
For more information take a look at the press release from the Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management.
