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Securing Europe’s #BiotechFuture: How can #biosecurity drive competitiveness? [Advocacy Lab Content]: The recent Euractiv event “Securing Europe’s #BiotechFuture - How can #biosecurity drive competitiveness?” brought together key stakeholders to discuss how biosecurity can support Europe’s biotech sector. euractiv.com/section/tech/vide

A friend of a friend in Cromwell has hosted an MPI fruit fly trap for 16 years without catching anything. Recently the trap captured its first fruit fly (a male), but we've yet to see an announcement from MPI.

Strange that.

Even worse, the MPI person who collected the trap said they've lost funding & will no longer be maintaining the traps, starting later this year.

What a dumb move. The Luxon government seems determined to save money in all the wrong places.

Honey

Went and picked honey last week from my supplier, a bio security Officer for Varroa (Varroa development officer). The jar on the right is what I normally get, ‘cause honey. 🍯🐝

Not now. I can only get the middle and left size. Why?

The impact of #VarroaMite on local hives. The example he gave was from our OS SE Island neighbours where the number of hives went 2000 to 8. This is the future of bees in Victoria.

#AgVic #Ag / #Victoria / #Varroa / #BeeMAX / #BioSecurity / #agriculture <agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecu> / <en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa>

New #openaccess release!

'Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature', edited by Annika Pohl Harrisson & Michael Eilenberg, explores the role of fencing as a mechanism of control, exclusion, and power in the name of #biosecurity. The volume brings together scholars from different regions to investigate the ways in which biosecurity #fencing is deployed across different contexts in #Europe and #NorthAmerica.

Read or download the book via: doi.org/10.33134/HUP-30

Check out our upcoming books!

'Fences and Biosecurity: The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature', edited by Annika Pohl Harrisson and Michael Eilenberg brings together #ethnographic case studies that provide unique insights into the social and political dynamics of #biosecurity fencing.

'Sacred Callings: An Eventful Analysis of the Global Catholic Priesthood' by Brian Conway explores cross-national trends in the #Catholic male workforce.

Find more info at: hup.fi/site/catalogue/

"...just randomly killing chickens..." We're all going to die. If not of bird flu, then of stupidity.
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MARGARET BRENNAN: --well, sure, what is the plan you're going to- do?

HASSETT: Yeah, so- so again, the- the Biden plan was to just, you know, kill chickens, and they spent billions of dollars just randomly killing chickens within a perimeter where they found a sick chicken. And so you go- I just went to the grocery store. I shop for our family, in part because I love to look at prices. And there were no eggs at the store yesterday, just a few. And- and so that happened because they killed all the chickens. And so what we need to do is have better ways, with biosecurity and medication and so on, to make sure that the perimeter doesn't have to kill the chickens. Have a better, smarter perimeter. And so having a smart perimeter is what we're working on, and we're finalizing the ideas about how to do that with the best scientists in government. And that's the kind of thing that should have happened a year ago, and if it had, then egg prices would be, you know, a lot better than they are now. But the avian flu is a real thing.

#USPol #USPolitics #MAGA #Biosecurity #BirdFlu
cbsnews.com/news/kevin-hassett

CBS News · Transcript: Kevin Hassett on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Feb. 16, 2025The following is the transcript of an interview with Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Feb. 16, 2025.

#RNZ has a good article on planting weeds in gardens then selling them. Casual sales of garden plants by gardeners is an important way that weeds move about the country, and it’s difficult for regional council Biosecurity staff to keep on top of. Just because a plant is pretty doesn’t mean it’s safe to sell. You can learn what plants are on #iNaturalist and check their status on WeedBusters NZ.

rnz.co.nz/news/national/541782

weedbusters.org.nz

RNZ · Backyard nurseries spreading pest plants in SouthlandBy Ninetonoon
#nz#weeds#gardens