Biosecurity Magazine - 2007

Contents

• Editorial - A big year for MAF Biosecurity New Zealand
• Passengers and cruise industry welcome new initiatives
• Didymo: Freshwater users getting the message
• 1080 reassessment decision
• Biosecurity Summit: MAF, trade and the cargo pathway
• Biosecurity Summit: Collaboration at the border
• Biosecurity Summit: Biosecurity integral to dairy industry success
• Biosecurity Summit: Process, tools and technology at the border
• The future - outcome-based codes of welfare
• Sixth international conference on replacement and humane use of animals in experiments
• The link between animal abuse and human violence

Contents

• Editorial - New centre continues proud tradition
• Tree planting underlines closer relationship between NCBID and Maori
• New ESR labs opening in 2008
• Animal welfare and international trade strategy
• WOW! Is that a pest in your costume?
• Unwanted pests arrive in comfort
• Full steam ahead for revamped border requirements and inspection system
• Matauranga Maori important component of Biosecurity Science Strategy
• Didymo: New model helps build likely growth picture
• Molecular genetic tools to detect didymo earlier
• Valuable learning experience on testing for vector-borne diseases
• Animal welfare and the OIE

Contents

• Editorial - Science: the foundation of biosecurity
• Fluorescent fish spark GM response
• Early detection, early action key to incursion response
• Breeding varroa-tolerant honey bee stock
• Spring-fed creeks: Is it something in the water?
• River control trial shows promise
• Didymo effects on river invertebrates: not as bad as feared?
• Preventing the establishment of exotic mosquitoes in New Zealand
• China likely source of Asian gypsy moth larva
• Kiwi snake catchers train with the real thing
• A biosecurity curriculum for New Zealand?
• NETS visitors impressed with plastic wrap technique
• New database to link invertebrates with host plants
• Inaugural International Pacific Invasive Ant Conference
• Four-way border governance group

Contents

• Editorial - Biosecurity surveillance - a key contributor to achieving biosecurity outcomes
• The battle for the Pacific: Keeping invasive ants at bay
• What's growing on down under? - Marine biological baseline surveys reveal 18 new exotic invaders
• Pest ahoy! Getting boaties, divers and swimmers on the biosecurity lookout
• Avian influenza surveillance expands
• Fruit fly alert: Vigilant scout does the right thing
• She's apples: Taiwan crisis concludes
• Response to a marine incursion of Styela clava
• International recognition
• Norm Hewitt's mission: 'One of the Family' campaign promotes empathy
• Animal law issues canvassed at Harvard conference

Contents

• Editorial - Improving the way we manage established pests
• What's on your boat's bottom?
• Weed programme snuffing out purple loosestrife in Canterbury
• Kiwi ingenuity brought to bear on marine pests
• $10,000 fine for seahorse powder importation
• Pest management researcher's career acknowledged
• Charlotte's new web
• New code sets out principles of care for deer
• Endothall trial on hornwort in the Wairarapa
• Getting the drift of aerial spraying
• Biocontrol research: understanding what makes possums tick
• Animal welfare and pest control
• Marine pest management partnership: Building New Zealand's internal marine pest management capability
• National Pest Plant Accord - Where to from here?
• Biosecurity road to FAME: Participants sought for market experience programme

Contents

• Editorial - Animal welfare - key domestic and international developments of operational and strategic significance
• Animal law with teeth - Legislative change and legal advocacy in the 21st century
• Afghanistan - Kiwis contribute to animal welfare in war-torn country
• Identifying farms during an incursion response
• Animal welfare during international transport
• Post-border detection of plant pests improved
• Operation Kadridri - surveillance for invasive ants
• Styela sea squirt response: update
• Three Rs programme promoting humane science
• Shellfish toxin testing without using animals
• Welfare Quality research programme backs EU action plan
• Fish pain revisited
• National Animal Welfare Emergency Management Group - Coordinating welfare response to natural disasters
• From advice on 1080 to monitoring global trends - all in a day's work for Animal Welfare group
• Codes of welfare - how are they developed?
• Forestry focus for national certificates
• Vertebrate Pests Committee

Contents

• Editorial - Biosecurity activities create impressive array of career choices
• Multidisciplinary approach to biosecurity at University of Canterbury
• Lincoln University appoints Professor in Plant Biosecurity
• Key biosecurity and welfare role for veterinary profession
• Masters course at the University of Waikato
• MAF careers in biosecurity: skills keenly sought
• Biosecurity careers profile: Putting science qualifications to work
• Multidisciplinary biosecurity teams at regional council level
• Red imported fire ant response gathers speed
• Code of Welfare for Companion Cats issued
• Nelson emphasis shifts to slowing spread
• Queenly outing for biosecurity message
• Hull-wrap technique shows promise
• Biosystematics and biosecurity
• Influx of exotic flies and ticks a continuing challenge
• Multi-agency effort to catch wildlife criminals

Contents

• Editorial - Partnership the key ingredient for social marketing success
• Didymo control research showing promise
• Border biosecurity science - It's still about people
• The human paradox - Risk-shy adventurers need to be involved in science
• Port manager calls for better coordination
• Delicate balancing act
• Feedback on imported vehicle and machinery risk analysis sort
• Fire ant eradicated at Port of Napier
• Audit finds high compliance with ruminant protein regulations
• It's a wrap! - Smothering squirts on HMNZS Canterbury
• Inter-island travellers get the Check, Clean, Dry message
• International collaborations help facilitate trade
• Consultative committee visits Auckland border biosecurity facilities
• National workshop for animal ethics committees
• The Animal Welfare Committee - the first 500 days
• I don't want half a dog ...
• Goodbye and good luck
• Funding review of plant and forestry exports
• National Animal Welfare Emergency Management Group activities
• Online national mosquito surveillance database