SLIDE 1 What is Biosecurity?
Is it working? Are we prepared? Who understands it? Who is responsible for it and who should be involved? The future! Darryl Hardie Surveillance Entomologist, Biosecurity & Regulation
SLIDE 2 His passion for collecting never
- stalled. As a university student at
Christ’s College, Cambridge, Darwin was an avid beetle collector, eventually amassing one of the best beetle collections he knew of. His beetle collecting also got his name in print for the first time. J. F. Stephen lists Darwin as a collector in his Illustrations
Entomology.
Entomologists can change the world
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- BAM Act
- WA Biosecurity Strategy
- Provide market access, protect productive capacity and the
environment (personal perspective) What is Biosecurity?
The management of the risks to the economy, the environment, and the community, of pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading (IGAB).
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Is our Biosecurity working? Fire ants Myrtle rust
SLIDE 5 Is our Biosecurity working? Banana Freckle Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus (CGMMV)
“Constraints on surveillance include declining investment among jurisdictions, declining expertise or limited availability of personnel, expense and
- ccupational health and safety requirements.” (De Barro & Smith 2014)
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Is our Biosecurity working? Meanwhile in the US Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) & Huanglongbing (HLB)
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Are we prepared?
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Who understands Biosecurity?
MPG plug
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Who understands Biosecurity?
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Who understands Biosecurity?
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Who understands Biosecurity?
The blight!
SLIDE 12 Who understands Biosecurity?
Extract from Australia’s Biosecurity future report (CSIRO 2014)
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Who understands Biosecurity?
The blight!
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Who understands Biosecurity?
Backpackers & Lawyers
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Who understands Biosecurity?
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Who understands Biosecurity?
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Who is responsible for Biosecurity and who should be involved?
Principle 1. Biosecurity is a shared responsibility
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The Biosecurity future!
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Biosecurity bad boy
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Litigation
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Litigation
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The future!
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The future!
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The future!
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What am I?
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New ways to look at Biosecurity It will never happen We’re all doomed Or is it just half a glass of water?
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The future!
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Tapping into a sea of information
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Past, Present and Future!
2004 2014 CS
SLIDE 30 Varroa mite
My most wanted (entomologically speaking)
Marmorated stink bugs Fruit flies Leafminers
- Biosecurity may not be forever.
- However keeping pest threats out of WA/Australia means someone
else funds the R&D and may solve the problem for us.
SLIDE 31 Conclusions
- We (in this room) work and live in a biosecurity microcosm which is
largely invisible to the wider community.
- We need to engage with the wider community on biosecurity to a point
where their understanding of the term is equivalent to that of ‘Quarantine’
- We need to capture the wider community through common ground i.e.
sell our message via food-beverage, gardening, recreational fishing, the environment etc.
- And finally remember biosecurity is a can of worms – that can be used
to improve the well being of our fertile and potentially captive community.
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