What is Biosecurity? Darryl Hardie Surveillance Entomologist, Biosecurity & Regulation Is it working? Are we prepared? Who understands it? Who is responsible for it and who should be involved? The future!
Entomologists can change the world 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 of British Entomology.
What is Biosecurity? • BAM Act • WA Biosecurity Strategy The management of the risks to the economy, the environment, and the community, of pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading (IGAB). • Provide market access, protect productive capacity and the environment (personal perspective)
Is our Biosecurity working? Fire ants Myrtle rust
Is our Biosecurity working? Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Banana Freckle Virus (CGMMV) “Constraints on surveillance include declining investment among jurisdictions, declining expertise or limited availability of personnel, expense and occupational health and safety requirements .” ( De Barro & Smith 2014 )
Is our Biosecurity working? Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) & Meanwhile in the US Huanglongbing (HLB)
Are we prepared?
Who understands Biosecurity? MPG plug
Who understands Biosecurity?
Who understands Biosecurity?
Who understands Biosecurity? The blight!
Who understands Biosecurity? Extract from Australia’s Biosecurity future report (CSIRO 2014)
Who understands Biosecurity? The blight!
Who understands Biosecurity? Backpackers & Lawyers
Who understands Biosecurity?
Who understands Biosecurity?
Who is responsible for Biosecurity and who should be involved? Principle 1. Biosecurity is a shared responsibility
The Biosecurity future!
Biosecurity bad boy
Litigation
Litigation
The future!
The future!
The future!
What am I?
New ways to look at Biosecurity We’re all doomed It will never happen Or is it just half a glass of water?
The future!
Tapping into a sea of information
Past, Present and Future! 2004 2014 CS
My most wanted (entomologically speaking) Varroa mite 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.
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.
Thank you Visit agric.wa.gov.au Supporting your success
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