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National Forest Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy

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The National Forest Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy has been designed to complement and address aspects of the National Plant Biosecurity Strategy, the National Plant Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy and the National Plant Biosecurity Diagnostic Strategy for the forest biosecurity sector.

The NFBSS provides a vision towards the establishment of a coordinated National Forest Pest Surveillance Program.
The three overarching objectives of the NFBSS are to:

  1. Improve forest pest surveillance coordination, capacity and capability across stakeholders.
  2. Maximise resource efficiency through stakeholder partnerships.
  3. Optimise forest surveillance efforts across the biosecurity continuum using a risk-based approach.

A series of goals and actions with defined outcomes are described to enable stakeholders to successfully establish a National Forest Pest Surveillance Program over 5 years.

Author(s): Forest Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy Working Group and the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Published: January 31, 2018

Date added: March 20, 2019

Keeping an eye on pests how to report a suspect pest

Any unusual plant pest, disease or weed should be reported.

Reporting hotlines operate in both Australia and New Zealand (numbers shown below).

Pests can also be reported using apps, such as MyPestGuide™ for Australia, that allow you to submit a photo of the pest or symptoms.

Every report is taken seriously and handled confidentially. Management of calls varies in different areas, but to the same end.

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