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• Costs and benefits of managing selected invasive alien species in the Western Indian Ocean countries of Seychelles and Comoros

  06/09/2018 Alan Tye

  

  This 2018 report by Philip (Pike) Brown, Quentin Paynter, Emilia Tjernström and Arne Witt contains the results of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies of a variety of invasive species problems in the Comoro and Seychelles Islands, carried out as part of IUCN’s Inva’Ziles project. The study analyses management options for Acacia concinna on Mahé island (Seychelles), Black Rat Rattus rattus in the Vallée de Mai World Heritage Site on Praslin Island (Seychelles), and the shrub Clidemia hirta on Ngazidja Island (Comoros). Download the report here.

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• Guidelines for Invasive Species Planning and Management on Islands

  17/07/2018 Alan Tye

  

  This document provides guidance and assistance for anyone planning any kind of invasive species programme, on islands anywhere. Use it to make sure you don’t forget anything when planning, and to help make your decision-making and planning go more smoothly! 

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• Website for information and surveillance on introduced animal species (France and French overseas territories)

  11/01/2018 Alan Tye

  As part of the national strategy for invasive alien species in France and overseas, the “UMS2006 Patrimoine Naturel” (Natural Heritage) has set up a website to report on and learn about introduced or invasive animal species.

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  Workshop on invasive plant biosecurity in the Western Indian Ocean islands

  06/11/2017 Alan Tye

  A regional workshop on invasive plant biosecurity was held from27 to 29 September 2017, at the Tampon campus of the University of Reunion.

  The seminar, which was led by the EpiBio-OI project (CIRAD) in collaboration with the Inva’ZIles project (IUCN) and the IOC-Biodiversity project, both financed by the European Union, enabled the participants to discuss the problem of invasive plants in the SW Indian Ocean and to adopt a common position at a regional level.

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• A gap analysis of national and island plans for managing invasive species in the Western Indian Ocean region

  07/11/2017 Alan Tye

  A gap analysis of the plans for invasive species management in the Western Indian Ocean countries and islands, including National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), National Invasive Species Strategies and Action Plans (NISSAPs) and others, has been commissioned from Dr Souad Boudjelas, an expert in national invasives planning who has previously carried out a similar analysis for the island countries and territories of the Pacific.

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• Commit to the Honolulu Challenge

  07/11/2017 Alan Tye

  During the 2016 World Conservation Congress in Hawai’i, there was a call from the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group, the host community in Hawai’i, and experts, protected area managers, representatives of governments and intergovernmental bodies, NGOs and others, for greater action on invasive species. This resulted in the Honolulu Challenge.

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• IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai’i

  08/12/2017 Alan Tye

  In September 2016, project staff Alan Tye, Olivier Hasinger and Kevin Smith organised and participated in several events at the World Conservation Congress (WCC) aimed at furthering Inva’Ziles objectives, especially the global guidance document. 

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