SAPIA News Issue 35 (January 2015)

  • Karoo invasion: the history of sweet prickly pear
  • Karoo invasion: the next onslaught of invasive cacti
  • Karoo invasion: prevention is better than cure
  • Pompom weed (Campuloclinium macrocephalum): progress with biological control

SAPIA News Issue 34 (October 2014)

  • NEMBA Alien and Invasive Species regulations come into effect
  • Cape Town’s Early Detection, Rapid Response Programme
  • Weed alert: goldenrods (Solidago spp.) in KwaZulu-Natal

SAPIA News Issue 33 (July 2014)

  • Invasive species programme: winter rainfall region of the Western Cape
  • Western Cape invasive species programmes: smooth cord grass (Spartina alterniflora); onion weed (Asphodelus fistulosus); broadleaf paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia); kangaroo wattle (Acacia paradoxa); rough-barked honey myrtle (Melaleuca parvistaminea)

SAPIA News Issue 32 (April 2014)

  • New invasive cactus (Opuntia pubescens)
  • Rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandiflora): threatens grazing lands, riverine forests and woodlands
  • Biocontrol of lantana by a flower-galling mite

SAPIA News Issue 31 (January 2014)

  • Weed alert: yellow Himalayan raspberry (Rubus ellipticus) detected in KwaZulu-Natal
  • Fringed wattle (Acacia fimbriata): managing the only known population in South Africa
  • Pompom weed (Campuloclinium macrocephalum): release of first insect biological control agent

SAPIA News Issue 30 (October 2013)

  • Invasive cacti and other succulents in the Little Karoo
  • Invasive fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum)
  • Summary of contents: SAPIA News 1-30

SAPIA News Issue 29 (July 2013)

  • 100 years of biological control
  • Mass-rearing of biocontrol agents at SASRI
  • The bugweed flowerbud weevil (Anthonomus santacruzi)
  • Biological control of Australian acacias: what you see is not what you get
  • Biological control of Australian acacias

SAPIA News Issue 28 (April 2013)

  • Alien plant invasion in the Waterberg
  • Indigenous bush encroachers and alien invaders – what is the difference?
  • Established species under CARA – Waterberg
  • Emerging species which should be eradicated – Waterberg

SAPIA News Issue 27 (January 2013)

  • Stop water poppy (Hydrocleys nymphoides) from invading our wetlands
  • Clearing of Mauritius hemp (Furcaea foetida) in KwaZulu-Natal: efforts of the EDRR programme
  • Emerging invader – pitch apple (Clusia rosea)

SAPIA News Issue 26 (October 2012)

  • Invasive plants on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast – biodiversity lost
  • Well established species that are declared under CARA (KwaZulu-Natal)
  • Species proposed under NEMBA (KwaZulu-Natal)
  • Emerging invasive species – Silver vine (Epipremnum aureum); brush-cherry (Syzgium paniculatum); blue trumpetvine (Thunbergia grandiflora); polka dot plant (Hypoestes phyllostachya)