Pests & Diseases News
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Director of Biosecurity Barry O’Neil said today that MAF and Police were responding to a claimed deliberate release of foot and mouth virus on Waiheke Island.
With duck shooting season starting this weekend, Biosecurity New Zealand is appealing to users of the Mararoa and lower Waiau rivers in Southland to guard against the spread of the invasive algae Didymosphenia geminata.
Biosecurity New Zealand has destroyed a number of freshwater marron crayfish and gudgeon fish, following their discovery at a disused service station in West Auckland and at a pond at South Head Kaipara, Biosecurity New Zealand Post-Clearance Animal team manager Ron Thornton said today.
As a result of recent fall webworm moth finds in Mount Wellington Auckland, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has extended vegetation movement controls under Section 131 (2) of the Biosecurity Act 1993, Biosecurity New Zealand manager of eradication programmes Ian Gear said today.
As a result of recent fall webworm moth finds in Mount Wellington Auckland, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has extended vegetation movement controls under Section 131 (2) of the Biosecurity Act 1993, Biosecurity New Zealand manager of eradication programmes Ian Gear said today.
Biosecurity New Zealand (BNZ) in conjunction with Environment Southland is holding three information meetings this week to explain the latest developments with the algae incursion of Didymosphenia affecting some 200 km of the Waiau and Mararoa Rivers, Biosecurity New Zealand Senior Adviser Christina Vieglais, said today.
A male moth was detected in a fall webworm trap on 7 February 2005 in Mount Wellington Auckland, Biosecurity New Zealand acting director of post-clearance Ian Gear said today.
The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry will lead a major exercise in April simulating an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, Biosecurity Minister Jim Sutton said today.