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Alien invaders are penetrating the borders of every country in the world. Now the full extent of the problems and potential solutions have been exposed, in a new United Nations report.
The project in West Africa will explore changing demographics, gender equity, land use change and emerging diseases, say Rashid Ansumana and coauthors.
Australia has a comprehensive plant biosecurity system, with the federal government responsible for pre-border (e.g., off-shore compliance) and border (e.g. import inspections) activities, while state governments undertake a variety of post-border activities (e.g., post-border surveillance, management of pest incursions, and regulation of pests) designed to reduce exotic pest arrival and establishment. Once an exotic pest has established and spread, its management, like that of endemic species, becomes the responsibility of the land manager. There has been a growing understanding among plant i...
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Expert calls for holistic approach to biosecurity 10 Mar, 2021 12:15 AM 3 minutes to read The Country Covid-19 has shown it's time for a holistic approach to biosecurity, Distinguished Professor Philip Hulme says. "The world is witnessing a global rise in the number of emerging alien species, including insect pests, noxious weeds as well as diseases of plants, animals and humans," biosecurity expert Hulme said. Read More There was no effective international regulation that addressed these threats, and as a result, these species posed a significant challenge to biosecurit...
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed a fractured global biosecurity system and a new approach is needed, a biosecurity expert says. Bio-Protection Research Centre distinguished professor Philip Hulme Photo: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a co The paper by distinguished professor Philip Hulme from the government funded Bio-Protection Research Centre has been published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal BioScience. Hulme said Covid-19 had shown there needed to be an approach to biosecurity that int...