Safeguarding Australia

This checklist will ensure that you have completed all necessary requirements when submitting blood samples to CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory

Introduced deliberately into the USA, the Australian native broadleaf paperbark tree is now an invasive pest in the Everglades of Florida and is the subject of biological control research in Australia.

This 16-page tour will introduce you to the staff and research of the Australian Animal Health Laboratory.

This fact sheet outlines biosecurity research by CSIRO, which is helping to manage the increasing threat and damage from invasive alien species that come with globalisation. (2 pages)

CSIRO is researching insect control and quality preservation of grain and stored durable products.

Prawn farmers can head off outbreaks of viral disease using a simple kit developed by CSIRO and Mahidol University. The prawn virus detection kit – able to detect the presence of both gill-associated virus (GAV) and yellow-head virus (YHV) – has been selling well in Australia, Latin America, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Hawaii, Myanmar and Brunei.

Dr Kemal Kazan researches model and crop plants to analyse signalling processes regulating plant defence responses.

CSIRO scientists are currently investigating two potential agents for release in Australia to help control Cape broom, an introduced weed in southern Australia.

CSIRO’s newly refurbished containment facility for exotic insects and plant pathogens in Canberra is hosting a species of rust fungus which shows promise as a biocontrol agent for the highly invasive plant pest, boneseed.

This document includes presentations from session three of the Biosecurity in the new bioeconomy: threats and opportunities symposia held 18-21 November 2009 in Canberra, Australia Capital Territory. (135 pages)

CSIRO Entomology has developed a software package to predict the possible distribution and movement of insects, vertebrates, weeds and pathogens in response to various climatic scenarios.

Dr John K Scott is protecting Australia's Mediterranean climate regions through research on the biological control of invasive weed species.

CSIRO's discovery of a DNA marker for two rust resistance genes is helping breeders develop rust resistant wheat. 

This article from Farming Ahead describes how willows were originally use to help control erosion but have become a major weed in some areas and CSIRO’s use of molecular tools to look at how they spread in river catchments. (3 pages)

CSIRO is making progress toward incorporating 'built-in' insect protection in cowpeas as part of a global initiative to improve cowpea production in sub-Saharan Africa and help reduce food shortages in the region.

Dr Dean Paini is using self organising maps (SOM’s) to model a range of plant pests and diseases to help determine their invasion risk potential to Australia.

This fact sheet details the use of rabbit calicivirus disease (RCD) as a biological control for rabbits in Australia. (2 pages)

CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory offers a testing service that can certify live poultry to international quarantine standards for import or export.

The CSIRO Times, Beef Expo is a four-page special edition focussing on Rockhampton beef research, produced especially for Beef 2006.

There are many types of wood borer in Australia.  We have compiled information about those which are most often found in timber in houses and furniture.

The fires of 12 February 1977 in the western district of Victoria provides a detailed analysis of the bushfires that devastated Victoria’s western district.

Stress, Strain, and Productivity in Men Suppressing Wildland Fires with Hand Tools examines the stresses firefighters experience, their physiological and subjective responses and their work behaviour and productivity.

CSIRO remote sensing specialists analysed Landsat satellite images to accurately map changes in the forest cover to assist land and resource managers, particularly in bushfire management. (55 pages)

Project Vesta - Fire in Dry Eucalypt Forest: fuel structure, dynamics and fire behaviour presents the aims, findings and outcomes of Australia’s most recent and significant study of forest fire behaviour.

This document contains proceedings of the XI International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, held in Canberra, Australia in 2003. (648 pages)