Recording of the 2024 CitrusWatch Annual Update Webinar now available

If you missed the CitrusWatch Annual Update Webinar that was held on Friday, 21 June 2024, you can now watch the recording.

This one-hour webinar provided an update on progress and current activities in the program’s community and industry engagement activities, and preparedness work.

The following speakers presented in the webinar:

• Rohan Burgess (Surveillance Manager, Plant Health Australia). Rohan coordinates the CitrusWatch project and the delivery of CitrusWatch’s preparedness activities.
• Ben Burchett (CitrusWatch Surveillance and Engagement Officer for Northern Australia, NT government). Ben coordinates sticky trapping and targeted surveys across the Top End, and works to raise biosecurity awareness.
• Jacqui Mitchell (Urban Biosecurity Coordinator at Citrus Australia). Jacqui engages with urban communities near major Ports of Entry to raise biosecurity awareness and encourage monitoring pests and diseases.

To learn how you can get involved with CitrusWatch, contact biosecurity@citrusaustralia.com.au.

CitrusWatch is a collaborative, national program between Plant Health Australia (PHA) , Citrus Australia, the Northern Territory Department of Industry Tourism and Trade, and Cesar Australia aimed at protecting Australian citrus by improving industry preparedness for key exotic pest threats. The program supports a volunteer-based, exotic pest early detector network both within the citrus industry and throughout the general public and provides access to training on the topics of biosecurity, exotic pest surveillance and identification.

CitrusWatch is funded through Hort Innovation, using the citrus research and development levy and contributions from the Australian Government. Hort Innovation is the grower owned, not-for-profit research and development corporation for Australian horticulture. Funding is also supplied by PHA using the citrus plant health levy.