CABI’s new Global Director, Invasive Species, Dr Lindsey Norgrove

Dr Lindsey Norgrove has joined CABI as Global Director, Invasive Species in succession to Dr Sarah Simons who has been seconded to GISP as Executive Director. more...
      

Announcing a new publication from GISP

A new GISP report on the taxonomic support needed for the management of invasive species will be available here soon.

Calendar of events

Workshops, conferences and events focusing on invasive species.

Websites and online databases

Search for websites and online databases about invasives species.

GISP has a new location, a new look and new leadership…

GISP's new Executive Director

20 March 2008 Dr Sarah Simons has been appointed as the new, Executive Director, GISP. Sarah was formerly Global Director, Invasive Species at CABI and until her appointment at GISP was also CABI’s representative on the GISP Executive Board. more...

GISP has a new home and leadership

24 March 2008
During the past few months, there have been some exciting changes taking place at the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP). It all started with the relocation of the GISP Secretariat, from one GISP Partner organisation i.e. the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in Cape Town to another GISP Partner organisation i.e. CABI Africa in Nairobi more...

CBD COP9 is coming... are you prepared?

21 April 2008
19 May sees the start of the much-awaited 9th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Control in Bonn, Germany (http://www.cbd.int/cop9/). Of particular interest is the in depth review of invasive alien species, where governments from around the world will assess the implementation of decisions taken to date under the CBD related to invasive alien species.  more...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another waterweed establishes in Africa…

Water Cabbage (Limnocharis flava), a serious aquatic weed which displaces native species, restricts water flow and access, provides breeding grounds for disease vectors and disrupts rice production, has been officially recorded in Ghana for the first although unofficial records state that it may have been present for more than 10 years. more...

What are Invasive species?

Find out more about invasive species and why they threaten our world.

 

GISP gratefully acknowledges the support of the following Development Partners without which the ongoing activities would not be possible
  • The World Bank (through the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Programme (BNPP))
  • The Global Environmental Facility
  • SwedBio/CBM

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