The sixth Biosecurity Extension Community meeting was held online on 14 December 2022, with 30 practitioners from multiple plant industries meeting to share insights, observations and best-practice on-farm biosecurity techniques. The Biosecurity Extension Community provides a platform for practitioners working across Australian plant industries to come together and discuss ways of improving management practices through […]
The 4th International Congress on Biological Invasions (ICBI2023) will be hosted in Christchurch (Ōtautahi), New Zealand (Aotearoa) on 1-4 May 2023. The ICBI congress will provide a forum to explore, share and develop responses to the global challenges and threats that Invasive Alien Species (IAS) present to biodiversity, ecological systems and food production and safety […]
Tavish Eenjes Plant biosecurity is a key issue in Australia, as food, sustainable timber and other plant-based material requirements continue to increase. Despite this, plant biosecurity initiatives are unnoticed and underappreciated by the wider public, while other biosecurity threats, such as the recent efforts to curtail the incursion of Varroa mite in New South Wales, […]
New online training packages will support good jobs in agriculture by helping more people recognise exotic pests and diseases. Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries and Minister for Rural Communities Mark Furner said Biosecurity Queensland, Plant Health Australia, and the NSW Government had developed two new online training packages, Hitchhiker Pests, and Nursery Pests […]
Australia, and the rest of the world, continue to face increasing biosecurity threats to our plant, animal industries and native environment. Recent calls for greater global coordination in biosecurity research to strengthen plant health made by global Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS-G20) held in Tokyo, the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), the International Bioeconomic Forum (IBF) […]
In May 2022, the PBRI awarded the Ritman Scholarship to four outstanding PhD students, to commemorate Dr Kim Ritman, a foundation member of the PBRI. The recipients were Rebecca Degnan (UQ), Bianca Rodrigues Jardim (LTU), Tavish Eenjes (ANU) and Salome Wilson (ANU) (L to R below). The scholarship enabled the students to attend the PBRI […]
National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology and acknowledges the important contribution of Australian scientists to the world of knowledge. This year the event was held from 13 – 21 August. Science is at the core of the work we do and together with Plant Health Australia (PHA) we explored the […]
The second day of the Symposium coincided with the International Day of Plant Health – a resolution at the recent UN (United Nations) general assembly. On this day, the inaugural PBBRI Ritman scholarship was awarded to four talented Australian Postgraduate students working in the field of plant biosecurity, one on phytoplasma diagnostics for the vegetable […]
The second Plant Biosecurity Research Symposium was held on the 11 & 12 May at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide on Kaurna country. The two-day Symposium, sponsored by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, included a program of plant biosecurity research, supported by the PBRI member organisations and partners. This event attracted […]
Meeting 18 was attended by representatives from six plant RDCs, Plant Health Australia (PHA) and the Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment (DAWE). Susan Maas, CRDC, chaired the meeting which included a member update on biosecurity activities and investments, relevant to the PBRI. Meeting 18 focused on the program and planning for the DAWE […]
