Buffel grass working group to consider Northern Territory impacts and management of invasive plant

Buffel grass in Central Australia is a contentious invasive grass. (Supplied: Arid Lands Environment Centre)

The Northern Territory government has established a technical working group to assess the impacts of buffel grass and look at how it is to be managed across Central Australia.

Buffel grass was introduced to the territory in the 1960s as a pasture for the region's cattle industry and is still highly valued by some pastoralists as fodder as well as for erosion control and dust suppression.