00:00What's the best way to stop a plant invasion in your country?
00:03Goats. Very hungry goats.
00:06In Somaliland, communities grind the invasive prosopis tree into nutrient-rich animal feed that keeps livestock alive during droughts.
00:15Prosopis can replace other trees in vegetation, deplete water sources, and take over large areas which would otherwise have been
00:23home to native vegetation, which local goats need.
00:26But now there's this machine that munches them down into animal feed.
00:30Prosopis is a tree species native to the Americas.
00:33It was introduced to East Africa in the 1960s to combat desertification.
00:38Because its fast-growing root system holds the sand together, the invasive tree spread rapidly through the region like wildfire
00:46and now covers an estimated 6,000 square kilometers in Somaliland.
00:50Until now.
00:51That's how you turn a threat into opportunity.
00:54That's how you win this fight.
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