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Organised by Te Tira Whakamātaki, home of the Māori biosecurity network, the three-day wānanga focussed on celebrating Māori biosecurity practices and connecting biosecurity practitioners for communities, industry and agencies to come together in a Kaupapa Māori environment to consider how Māori and their mātauranga can contribute to the restoration of our natural world.

Congratulations to all eight contestants in the 2022 Bay of Plenty Young Grower competition.  Laura Schultz (Trevelyans) was the winner on the night, Yanika Reiter (KVH) was runner up and Emily Woods (Apata) came in third. The competition day and gala dinner were both wonderful displays of our regional talent and expertise. Read more about the…

This photo – taken in a farm paddock near Rotorua – shows the very real issue for farmers when wallabies become well established. That’s why Bay of Plenty Regional Council are working alongside the Rotorua community, mana whenua, MPI, Waikato Regional Council, Federated Farmers and conservation groups to stop their spread.

Travellers will not be allowed to bring personal consignments of any meat products from Indonesia to New Zealand in the latest step to protect against Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), says Biosecurity New Zealand deputy director general Stuart Anderson.

Last month, TMBC’s Co-Chairs attended a biosecurity wānanga at Waitangi for a two-day kōrero bringing together hapū and planting the seed for a regional biosecurity collaboration initiative in Northland.  

Save the date for the fourth annual Tauranga Moana Biosecurity Excellence Symposium. This is our biggest event of the year, focussing on a ‘Biosecurity Reset’.

Congratulations to the winners of the Guardian of the Forest – Creative Challenge. We loved seeing how each artwork entry uniquely expressed the importance of protecting our sacred kauri!

Biosecurity New Zealand has just launched its winter campaign to help raise awareness of a particularly unwanted pest – the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB).

Join an important webinar at 11am, 8 June, presented by Dr Gleiber Quinta and Dr Robert Barreto from the Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil where they will discuss chasing the fungal antagonists of the myrtle rust fungus in Brazil.

With several populations found at different locations in the past few months, Better Border Biosecurity (B3) is focusing its expertise and intensifying research activity to support the ongoing response to the incursion of the fall armyworm (FAW).