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Biosecurity Business Pledge - Governors and CEO guidance launched

The Biosecurity Business Pledge has released new resources for businesses to aid discussion in boardrooms and senior leadership tables around the significance of biosecurity in New Zealand. The Biosecurity Business Pledge is a partnership which aims to help all businesses across New Zealand to be proactive in their biosecurity practices. For...

So good to be back - Monitoring Visit to Samoa

After a long two and a half years, we were once again able to visit Savai’i, an island in Samoa, where for the last five years SPS Biota has been implemented Samoa Cocoa Improvement Export Programme, which has been playing a leading role in revitalising once famous Savai’i cocoa industry....

Surveillance September 2022 - Annual Report available now

Ministry for Primary Industries have released the newest edition of Surveillance. The September issue of Surveillance includes annual reports relating to Plant and Environment surveillance, some of which SPS Biota is a part of. Browse the newest issue here: Publications » SciQuest » Surveillance 

SPS Forestry Biosecurity Surveillance | SCION Visit & Field day

SPS staff involved in forestry pest and disease surveillance visited SCION last week in Rotorua. SCION staff gave us presentations on emerging and current insects and diseases in plantation forestry. We visited the pathology and entomology laboratories, of particular interest was that the team was able to look at exotic...

NEW See, Contain, Report Newsletter - August 2022

Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) have released a new edition of the See, Contain, Report Newsletter. The August 2022 Edition gives updates on various areas of the Transitional Facility Window including; Tips and reminders for Operators and APs New Contamination Charts Place of First Arrival Standard review TF/CF Infringement notices...

Foot and Mouth Disease | raising awareness for travellers

Biosecurity New Zealand is stepping up its work at the border with a campaign to ensure travellers do their part to protect farmers from foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is caused by a virus that infects cloven-hooved animals. This includes animals such as cows, pigs, sheep, deer, alpaca and...

Pacific Cacao and Chocolate 2022 | Celebrating all things Pacific Cacao

The Team at SPS Biota were thrilled to be a part of the inaugural Pacific Cacao and Chocolate Event held at Mount Smart Stadium on Saturday 23rd July 2022. Chris Inglis and Tanner Stott representing Narra and the Phillippines. Photo by Geoff Carlaw. Keith Budd with Luke Owen-Smith (PCC Judge)...

SPS Biota at Safetree Conference - June 2022

Working together to promote reporting and biosecurity in forests, the stand was shared by Abigail Evans from Find-a-Pest, Lucy Aukett from SPS Biota and Brendan Gould from the Forest Owners Association. On 16/17 June SPS staff Lucy Aukett and Andrew Blakie attended the Safetree forestry industry conference in Queenstown. The...

Biosecurity New Zealand - Brown marmorated stink bug winter awareness

Biosecurity New Zealand has launched a campaign around brown marmorated stink bug awareness during the winter months. "The BMSB winter campaign focuses on showing people how to correctly identify BMSB and report it. BMSB looks like some other bug species but has elements that make it identifiable, including white stripes...