All posts tagged "pests"

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  PHA launches free plant biosecurity surveillance training

  Plant Health Australia (PHA) has launched an online plant biosecurity surveillance course aimed at strengthening industry and government’s plant biosecurity response readiness...

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  Farm biosecurity improves the management of soil-borne diseases

  Disease causing organisms found in the soil can be very difficult and expensive to control or eradicate. For many, once they are...

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  What happens when an exotic pest arrives in Australia?

  An important part of Australia’s biosecurity system is to prepare for the arrival of exotic pests. Preparations are based on an understanding...

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  The status of plant biosecurity in Australia

  The National Plant Biosecurity Status Report (NPBSR) is the latest comprehensive plant biosecurity resource detailing Australia’s plant biosecurity system and the pre-border,...

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  Landholders in the Western region encouraged to consider pig strength meat baits

  Landholders in the Western region wanting to control feral pigs are being encouraged to consider meat baiting, with those that participated in...

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  News and Views

  Ongoing eradication of exotic fruit fly from Torres Strait

  Exotic fruit flies are ranked #4 in the list of National Priority Plant Pests. The good news is that efforts to stop...

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  Monitor for stripe rust infections emerging in wheat

  Growers are being urged to be vigilant when inspecting wheat crops, following the identification of stripe rust infection.

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  Growers urged to keep monitoring mouse numbers

  New South Wales and Queensland grain growers are being urged to ‘walk through paddocks’ to check for signs of mouse activity and...

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  News and Views

  New research sheds light on feral deer as disease transmitters

  Eighteen deer species were released into Australia as game animals in the late 1800s, and as a result Australia now has a...

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  Milestone: WildDogScan app reaches 125,000 entries

  The Centre for Invasive Species Solutions WildDogScan monitoring and management resource now contains more than 125,000 entries of wild dogs, attacks, and...