Pests & Diseases News
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) and the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) today confirmed that a series of New Zealand and European laboratory tests on a single New Zealand sheep brain have detected the condition atypical scrapie (also known as Nor 98).
After months of detective work, MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) has unravelled the cause of mass deaths of cockle shellfish in an estuary north of Auckland earlier this year.
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) is helping Auckland authorities to determine the cause of dog illness and death following visits to the city’s North Shore beaches.
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) says an important milestone has been reached in the programme to rid New Zealand of the southern saltmarsh mosquito with the completion this week of aerial treatments in the Wairau area in Marlborough.
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) has successfully eliminated the Southern salt marsh mosquito (SSM) from the Coromandel area, ending some three years of treatment and surveillance activity.
Marlborough duck shooters heading out to their mai mai for the start of the season this weekend should report any aggressive or unusual mosquito activity around salt marsh areas.
Following an intensive three year surveillance programme MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) has declared the successful eradication of the Red Imported Fire Ant from the Whirinaki area, effective 4pm Wednesday 22 April 2009.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) is pleased with the conviction handed out in the Christchurch District Court on Thursday, the first under the Biosecurity (Meat and Food Waste for Pigs) Regulations 2005.
Work started today on a programme to attempt to eliminate a marine pest fanworm from Lyttelton Port of Christchurch.
MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (MAFBNZ) is asking property owners in the Wairau area of Marlborough to be aware that if they are planning irrigation, there is a chance they may cause hatching of Southern saltmarsh mosquitoes.