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Biocontrol Workshop | Waikato Biodiversity Forum

Earlier in April, a few members of our North Island team travelled to Hamilton to participate in a Biocontrol Workshop hosted by the Waikato Biodiversity Forum. Biocontrol is quite a drastic contrast to biosecurity: Biocontrol – The control of an invasive species by the introduction of a natural predator Biosecurity...

Chatham Islands Visit March 2023

Recently, a team of three SPS Biota staff made a visit to the Chatham Islands. Chatham Islands Tuuta Airport Terminal   SPS Biota works with Environment Canterbury (ECan) and the Chatham Islands Council to provide support in the Chatham Islands Border Quarantine and Biosecurity programme. The Chatham Islands are a...

NEW Container fumes online course AVAILABLE NOW!

  Container fumes are an important health and safety consideration for all staff working with imported containers. SPS Biota has created an eLearning course that will provide learners with a basic understanding of: what container fumes are how to safely manage container fumes when devanning an imported container. The course...

Updates to TFGEN and TFGEN-GD from MPI

Ministry for Primary Industries has updated the standard Transitional Facilities for General Uncleared Risk Goods (TFGEN) and the Guidance Document for this standard (TFGEN-GD). The newest versions of both documents are dated 17 March 2023. If you have a copy of these standards in your TF Manual folder, now is...

New & improved BMSB e-learning OUT NOW!

We have upgraded our popular brown marmorated stink bug e-learning course! This online learning covers: - What is a brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB)? - Why should I care? - How to identify BMSB - What to do if you suspect you’ve found a BMSB. This course is totally free...

Dutch elm disease in the Waikato

Dutch elm disease (DED) is a deadly vascular wilt disease that attacks almost all elm species where it is present (Ghelardini & Santini, 2009). Trees that become infected will gradually decline, first wilting (see below photo) and subsequently losing their leaves and becoming increasingly unable to carry out their normal...

The Story of Resilience & Hope - Philippines

The coastal road along the eastern part of Samar Island from Guiuan to Borongan passes through endless coconut plantations and picturesque coast with coral rock formations and black volcanic sand beaches. But as soon as you turn inland, the landscape completely changes within a few minutes of the drive into...

New Forest Biosecurity Newsletter

A new issue of the Forest Biosecurity Newsletter from the Forest Owners Association was released last month. 'This regular newsletter is for people working in plantation forestry, as well as others with an interest in forest biosecurity. Its aim is to keep readers up to date on biosecurity issues and help...

Forestry Biosecurity at Fieldays

This year at Fieldays was the launch of the brand new Forestry Hub. Under the theme of ‘Wood – our low-carbon future’, the Fieldays Forestry Hub gave visitors the chance to explore the many facets of the forestry and wood processing sector and how the sector has a vital role...