English to Italian Science Botany Protezione della biodiversità

G7 Protecting biodiversity

Invasive exotic/alien species are understood to have a detrimental effect on an ecosystem (Target 5 of the EU Biodiversity Strategy). Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of 22 October 2014 lays down the EU’s obligation to ‘prevent the introduction of, control or eradicate those alien species, which threaten ecosystems, habitats or species’. On the Ispra site, active measures such as the following are underway to:

1. ** Remove Prunus serotina ** (black cherry);
2. Cut low the Pleioblastus pygmaeus (pygmy bamboo) in the ‘laghetto’ area regularly; and
3. Cut low the Solidago gigantea (giant goldenrod) on a regular basis.