Re: [silk] Toothless goats

[ashok]

Thanks for the link...

This plant is ubiquitous in northern
kenya.... I had heard of rumours of people having
problems with it (on the same lines
as described in the article...), didnt know it had been 
officially brought to court.

(the name "mathenge" is after
the provisional commissioner a certain 'PC Mathenge' who introduced
it in the 80s in the northern provinces..)

The other well known environmental disaster
is that of lake victoria - the nile perch was introduced
into the lake many years back, as a
good edible fresh water fish....it ended up eating every other
species of fish present...then someone
introduced the water hyacinth because it looked decorative...
and that plant spread like a parasite
and clogged up most of the ports and destroyed other 
indigenous flora and fauna....


Srini Ramakrishnan wrote on 08/07/2006 03:43:01 PM:

> Makes for an alarming parallel to the poison seas thread.
> 
> Cheeni
> 
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/5252256.stm
> 
> Killer weed hits Kenyan herders
> By Anne Mawathe
> BBC News, Kenya
> 
> A toothless goat is not a common sight in Kenyan courtrooms.
> 
> But the appearance of the animal before Nairobi judges in July was
a 
> sign of how desperate some Kenyans have become in their battle against

> the invasive "mathenge" plant, known by its scientific name
of prosopis 
> juliflora.