UOG Expertise: Making use of invasive species as a sustainable resource

UOG Expertise: Making use of invasive species as a sustainable resource

UOG Expertise: Making use of invasive species as a sustainable resource


6/14/2022

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Else Demeulenaere is the associate director for UOG’s Center for Island Sustainability, where she mentors students and leads several forest restoration, endangered species recovery, and ethnobotanical projects. She may be reached at 735-2918 or else@uog.edu.

Making use of invasive species as a sustainable resource

By Else Demeulenaere for the Pacific Daily News

While some of my research as a biologist revolves around finding sustainable and cost-effective species control methods, in today’s column I want to talk about using invasive plants as a resource alongside controlling them, highlighting the use of bamboo or pi’ao.

Read the full article in the Pacific Daily News