Same old … NZ is a faithful friend of the herbicide industry, as I mention often they spray herbicides everywhere particularly glyphosate…
“Who benefits from this project? Not the taxpayer. Not the park visitor who is now exposed to a lot of herbicide that wasn’t required in the past. Not the wildlife, birds, and insects that lived in and ate the non-native vegetation. “
This obsession with replacing exotic vegetation with native exists in NZ, too.
Herbicides damage the soil by killing beneficial microbes and mycorrhizal fungi that facilitate the movement of water and nutrients from the soil to the tree roots.
Attempting to eradicate non-native plants is NOT a short-term project. It is a forever commitment to using herbicides…LOTS of herbicide.
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I call it plant-based racism.
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