Biological Invasion Pueraria Montana Var Lobata has Negative Impact Towards Water, Agricultural Land Use for Substance Farming and Sustainable Development
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Abstract
Invasive alien species (IAS) are species introduced into places outside their natural range that have negative impacts on native biodiversity. The study aims to document the identified sites and monitor eradication progress of all cleared sites in Mpumalanga and observe and record the number of missed plants and investigate the cause and best possible method to eradicate them in future. Alien invasive plants fuels climate change ,water shortage and health and environmental risk therefore there is a need to tackle them Monitoring and evaluation of biological invasion cleared sites is a crucial issue in South Africa thefore the study aims to close the gap. The applied study applied qualitative methodology. Pueraria montana var lobata has invaded at least four Provinces in South Africa, and within the four provinces ,there are contracting teams appointed to manage the populations. Mpumalanga Province has eleven known populations, KwaZulu Natal Province has five populations, Gauteng Province has one population and Limpopo has also one population. The total known population in South Africa are estimated to eighteen sites. The research will increase the knowledge in monitoring and evaluation.