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and in Gabon

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Title and in Gabon
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description The same red ants have been reported in Gabon, where they have been decimating some local invertebrates and threatening the biological balance in some regions, notably the south-western coast, to the south-east of the capital Libreville. But they were invited to come. They were first introduced in cacao plantations to control some hemipteran mirid insects, and they have been put to work by local people to clean out their maize plantations.

From: Canopée, an environmental newsletter for central Africa, May 1999
The same red ants have been reported in Gabon, where they have been decimating some local invertebrates and threatening the biological balance in some regions, notably the south-western coast, to the south-east of the capital Libreville. But they...
 
Date 2000
2014-10-16T09:07:31Z
2014-10-16T09:07:31Z
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 2000. and in Gabon. Spore 85. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46663
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99587
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Source Spore