The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department share how boaters and paddlers can protect lakes from aquatic invasive species.

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Fisheries biologists of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission have been able to snuff out the giant salvinia species, an invasive aquatic plant species in Arkansas. This ...

The ADCNR announced Monday that it is closing the Washington County Public Fishing Lake to draw down the water and kill giant salvinia. The plant is a free-floating fern native to Brazil.

The plant’s mats block needed sunlight for aquatic plants that live below the water’s surface, Frost said. Giant Salvinia can be devastating for the water quality.

Giant salvinia, an invasive water weed sold as an ornamental plant for aquariums, blankets Stump Lake in Slidell on Sept. 11, 2024. (Staff photo by Alex Lubben) ...

South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from Louisiana in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of Salvinia minima, an alien species of aquatic plant native to South America that is choking ...

South Africa is unleashing weevils imported from the United States in a bid to fight off the sprouting growth of Salvinia minima, an alien species of aquatic plant native to South America that is ...

The plant is steadily taking over freshwater bodies in the northern region of South Africa, suffocating aquatic life, including on the Crocodile River and the Hartbeespoort Dam it flows into.

The plants have had two major growth spurts in 2021 and 2022, surviving on the high nitrate contents in the water. The plant initially surfaced more than a decade ago at the dam, which has also ...