FWPA
Current Research
Sirex wood wasp is a major pest of softwood plantations in Australia, with a combined impact of $35 million in outbreaks and management since it established. A long-established biocontrol p…
FWPA
Current Research
This project examines the current high priority pests for commercial forestry in Australia and identifies additional potential exotic threats to pine and eucalypt plantation productivi…
FWPA
Current Research
This project aims to maintain and increase the productive capacity of the Australian forest industry by diversifying the range of effective, environmentally and socially acceptable pest…
FWPA
Current Research
Host (tree) removal is likely to be the only feasible and cost-effective means of eradication of many of the exotic pests identified as high priority for forestry and horticulture. Social ac…
FWPA
Current Research
There is an urgent need to develop rapid and reliable diagnostic protocols due to (1) increasing risk from invasion of exotic forest pests and pathogens, and (2) decline in technical capacit…
Podcast
In 2023 the FWPA-supported Centre for Timber Durability and Design Life entered an exciting new stage in its evolution with the appointment of its new Director, Professor Tripti Singh. With…
FWPA
Webinar
Held Wednesday 6 September 2017, Presented by Dr Angus Carnegie, NSW Department of Primary Industries. This talk is one of a series arising from a recent FWPA funded study that has attempted t…
FWPA
Webinar
Costs and benefits of forest biosecurity: Case Study 1 – Eucalyptus leaf beetle as the example of an established defoliating pest This talk is one of a series arising from a recent FWPA f…