Japanese knotweed: why is it so damaging and can it be stopped?
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The Importance of Researching Japanese Knotweed
In May 2019, the Science and Technology Committee criticized the overly cautious approach we take to knotweed in the UK. Samantza Brahmanian: "You definitely do develop some sort of admiration for it" The plant has just done what its biological nature impels it to do, which is spread and grow and reproduce,. It isn't sort of a sentient being, it is merely trying to live," he says.
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