Tag: invasive non native species

Saving Scotland’s Rainforest – approaches to the growing problem of invasive Rhododendron ponticum

17 May 2023

Rhododendron ponticum is one of the main threats to Scotland’s rainforest, alongside overgrazing by deer and sheep. An invasive non-native plant that is now well established in Scotland and the rest of the UK, it suppresses rainforest lichens and bryophytes, as well as the native trees which support them. The longer this issue is left […]