Biosecurity Magazine - 2006

Contents

• Editorial - International Trade Agreements
• Didymo - Concerns go global
• Children getting 'Check, Clean, Dry' didymo message
• Waterways users hold key to stopping didymo
• Successful handover of mosquito eradication programme
• Uplifting experience for Amagh
• Red imported fire ant - Response update (Whirinaki 2006)
• Excellence in the humane use of animals recognised
• Illegal Australian immigrants dealt with
• Biosecurity Summit 2006
• Defenders of the peace: New Zealand's marine parasites versus exotic crabs?
• Asian Gypsy Moth: How likely is it to establish in New Zealand?
• Imported vehicles and machinery review: Stopping unwanted hitch hikers
• Three-way animal welfare MOU
• Animal welfare in the 'Fast Food Nation'
• Queenslanders pegging back fire ant incursion
• Marine biosecurity collaboration

Contents

• Editorial - Global and local angles for Biosecurity Summit
• Didymo - 'Nuking' not an option - knowledge and awareness the key
• Caterpillar can leave a nasty wheal
• Communication - one of the keys to effective marine biosecurity
• Accord to protect New Zealand from harmful weeds
• Committee chairpersons reappointed
• Assessing biosecurity risk of 'living dinosaur'
• Emergency hotline a valuable frontline service
• Pest discoveries
• New glasshouses to help in fight against invasive new species
• Funding review of exports and treatment suppliers 2006 - 2007
• Workshop considers pain relief for production animals
• What's news, pussycat?
• Pest Watch: 07/08/2006 - 15/09/2006

Issue 70 - 15 September 2006

Contents

• Pacific off-shore container management programme
• Export of dogs and cats to the United Kingdom
• Aquatic animal diseases and risk analysis
• What’s in our coastal waters?
• National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease – Wallaceville
• Antarctica under biosecurity threat
• Hot dip for taro

Issue 69 - 1 August 2006

Contents

• Reducing biosecurity risk for the Chatham Islands
• The enemy within
• Ten years of x-ray technology on the front lines
• Hot science on a cold night
• Varroa heads south
• Dutch elm disease field response activities: 2005/06
• Red imported fire ants found
• Tomato psyllid detected in New Zealand
• Guava rust a step closer to New Zealand
• Honey import health standard issued
• New airport amnesty bins

Issue 68 - 15 June 2006

Contents

• Risk analysis: first tool in the biosecurity kit
• Avian influenza surveillance stepped up
• BNZ head elected president of world animal health body
• Universal animal identification system proposed
• Foot and mouth disease vaccine supply secured
• Official BSE freedom status for New Zealand
• MAF goes to the Fieldays
• Gypsy moth levy unchanged
• Getting in touch on marine biosecurity
• Biosecurity spinoff for boatwash facility
• Noogoora bur found
• Stricter rules for wood packaging
• Doing things right
• Tools for destruction of risk goods
• Fungus hits radiata pine

Issue 67 - 1 May 2006

Contents

• Risk assessment for Btk products being updated
• PAM spray cleared by toxicologist
• Plant pest list under review
• Putting our heads together: BSE surveillance targets
• Ruminant protein requirements tightened
• Quick action over maize disease
• Subterranean termites found in Nelson
• MAF–SPCA Memorandum of Understanding
• Composting of poultry carcasses
• Proposed changes to border clearance fees
• Aquatic pest weed found in Timaru

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Executive Co-ordinator
Biosecurity New Zealand
PO Box 2526
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND

Phone: +64 4 894 0435
Fax: +64 4 894 0300

Issue 65 - 1 Februrary 2006

Contents

• Personal responsibility key to stopping didymo
• Pest fish threaten ecosystems
• Fish & Game New Zealand
• Biosecurity opportunities and risks
• Local heroes wanted for 2006 Weedbusters awards
• Border fees under review
• Painful husbandry procedures: code issued