bigdog

I can almost guarantee that whoever wrote that article knows nothing about seeded banana species, and probably doesn't even know there are bananas that are native to Australia. Case in point: I saw an article posted many months ago on another forum concerning palms in Los Angeles, CA. The jist of the article was that more shade trees were needed, and that some of the palms had gotten old and were "in need of removing" (paraphrasing). One of the ladies interviewed in the article, an "expert" on native plants, said that palms aren't even native there! Huh? Err...ever heard of the California Fan Palm, aka Washingtonia filifera? Wow!

Like Gabe suggested, I certainly hope they aren't just going to eradicate them without evaluating them first. Sounds like they are taking a "shoot first, ask questions later" approach to it. Hope we don't lose a possible valuable species with new genes.