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Inside state plan to stop Mathenge weed spread

Dead Flamingos hanging on trees at Lake Bogoria National Reserve in Baringo county. At least twenty thousand flamingos have died while stuck on Mathenge trees since swelling water pushed them to the shores. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Plans are underway to control the spread of the invasive prosopis juliflora, locally known as Mathenge, in arid and semi-arid areas.

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