Biosecurity Magazine - 2005

Issue 64 - 15 December 2005

Contents

• A strategic approach to biosecurity science
• Disease detectives
• RFID technology
• Planning for national centre at Wallaceville continues
• The science behind border protection
• Biological control of pests
• People in Biosecurity
• Education officer appointed
• Avian influenza
• Keeping the South varroa free
• Nationwide surveillance for sea squirt
• Pitch canker simulation an outstanding success
• Pacific Island quarantine awareness programme
• Local initiatives boost ‘Know the Enemy’ campaign
• New era for high-risk site surveillance
• Revamped gypsy moth programme
• Surfing New Zealand’s biosecurity

Issue 63 - 1 November 2005

Contents

• Managing risk pathways key to marine biosecurity
• (Not) Wanted: Bulbul bullies
• Exotic sea squirt finds under investigation
• A partnership to protect Fiordland’s marine environment
• With enemies like these
• People in Biosecurity
• Weedy gang of four in our sights
• Livestock saleyards – what’s the risk?
• Public participation key to didymo management

Issue 62 - 15 September 2005

Contents

• National invasive ant surveillance
• Didymo containment programme ramped up
• Moth reports show safe, responsible attitude to public health
• Whither, whitefly?
• Nice or nasty plants
• People in Biosecurity
• Biosecurity monitoring: Are there any holes in the net?
• Rare honour for New Zealand animal welfare leader
• Soya meal the culprit in GM maize scare
• Mainland pests threaten Chathams biosecurity

Issue 61 - 1 August 2005

Contents

• Inspectors on animal welfare front lines
• Codes of welfare
• The welfare of animals during Operation Waiheke
• Update for key animal welfare publications
• News from the National Animal Welfare
• Advisory Committee (NAWAC)
• Ruminant protein control programme audits
• Exercise Taurus: Phase II
• Air curtain incinerator trial shows promise
• Carcass burial planning formalised
• Know the enemy
• Dutch elm disease
• Spray programme effective against Florida red scale
• $80 million pest eradicated
• Import standard manages disease risk from imported meal
• Risk of herbicide-resistant seed establishing extremely low

Issue 60 - 15 June 2005

Contents

• Operation Waiheke
• Exercise Taurus: Phase one
• Plant quarantine resources boosted
• Australian subterranean termites eradicated
• Marron: Successful inter-agency collaboration
• e-Learning Award
• Keeping watch on aquatic pests
• National invasive ant programme update
• Asian gypsy moth eradicated
• Right story, wrong amphibian
• Fall webworm response update
• New ERMA Chief Executive announced

Issue 59 - 1 May 2005

Contents

• 100 of the worst invaders: how do we rate?
• Foot and mouth disease field exercise successful
• Southern saltmarsh mosquito eradication update
• Plans to bring in a new organism? Ask ERMA NZ first
• New organisms: How MAF ensures controls and standards are met

Issue 58 - 15 March 2005

Contents

• Exercise Taurus testing national biosecurity system
• Key welfare codes issued
• Use of methyl bromide in New Zealand
• Vessel biofouling research to measure marine biosecurity risk
• MAF role in National Response Centre (NRC)

Issue 57 - 1 Februrary 2005

Contents

• Knowing what’s expected in an incursion response
• Let’s talk: Lessons from the PAM programme
• Health monitoring following eradication programme
• Welcome home with a sting in the tail
• Invasive algae may be here to stay