INCREASING THE LEVEL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY OF TALABSKY ISLANDS (PEIPSI LAKE) IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXPANSION OF AGGRESSIVE INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES
The article deals with the distribution of alien plant species on the Talabsky Islands, located at the eastern shore of the transboundary Peipsi/Chudskoe Lake. The growing ecological threat of undesirable expansion of the most "aggressive" and dangerous to human health invasive species Heracléum sosnówskyi Manden is underlined. Some practical measures to ensure the environmental safety of island's ecosystems are proposed.