As far as flowering plants go, the Lantana camara is deceptively ornamental. Lantana is actually a weed — a drought-resistant, non-native species that was brough to India by the British, and that has since taken over with a density and pace that threatens India's own native biodiversity.
Being very expensive to remove, the menace is a challenging one. Solutions have to be innovative, and take into account not only environment but also the livelihoods of people in affected areas — mainly Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh. For an easy-to-follow, illustrated explainer of this issue published in The NewsMinute, click here.
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