761) Five new IPPC Diagnostic Protocols adopted!

The IPPC Secretariat is happy to announce that five new diagnostic protocols (DPs) have been adopted by the Standards Committee …

762) New schedule and virtual modality for CPM-15: urgent poll for IPPC contracting parties

Rome, 14 December 2020. In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the associated containment measures, it was not possible …

763) Australia kicked off the International Year of Plant Health

Canberra, 6 February 2020 - The International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) 2020 has been officially launched on 6 February …

764) The effective role of remote sensing in detecting pests and supporting plant health surveillance

Rome, 2 November 2021 – A webinar on the use of remote sensing technologies to support plant health surveillance activities …

765) Euwallacea fornicatus (polyphagous shot-hole borer, PSHB) in Western Australia

In August 2021, Euwallacea fornicatus was detected at a residential premise in Perth, Western Australia, infesting a box-elder maple tree …

766) Legislation-Biosecurity Bill

The Acts and Regulations below are the main Legislation that Biosecurity Vanuatu deals with to ensure maximum compliance to provisions, …

767) Vanuatu National point of entries

Vanuatu has 4 national port of entries where goods in containers are being offloaded. Port of entries are on Efate …

768) IPPC Community strongly represented at Climate Change COP 23 in Bonn Germany

The IPPC community was strongly represented at the 23rd Conference of Parties (COP-23) of the United Nations Framework Convention on …

769) Webinar introducing IPPC capacity development tools generates global interest

Rome, 26 October 2021. The Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) held a webinar on 22 October to …

770) Absence of Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii from Thailand

Pest surveillance: During 2007 - 2010, DOA has conducted the surveillance to determine the establishment of the bacterial disease Stewart's …