Publication Date

8-2020

Publisher

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

City

Perth

Abstract

The Biosecurity Council of Western Australia has committed to holding annual regional meetings. The intent of the regional meetings is to:

  • Engage with local/regional stakeholders on biosecurity matters
  • Build networks/relationships with key biosecurity stakeholders
  • Provide a conduit to government/DPIRD for local/regional biosecurity stakeholders.

For its second regional meeting Council agreed to visit Augusta, located in the South West Region of Western Australia. The region is home to a large and diverse horticultural sector, aquaculture enterprises as well as livestock, for which biosecurity is important. In addition, it is a biodiversity hotspot with large tracts of natural bushland and aquatic environments making environmental biosecurity paramount.

Declared pest rates have recently been introduced in parts of the region to provide funding for community-driven activities targeting established pests. As the Minister requested Council advice on declared pest rates and biosecurity groups (which coordinate expenditure of declared pest rates), holding the regional meeting in Augusta facilitated discussions with stakeholders on this topic.

The Biosecurity Council visited Augusta from 3 - 6 August 2020.

Number of Pages

6

Keywords

Western Australia, biosecurity, risks and threats, regional meeting, stakeholders

Disciplines

Agricultural and Resource Economics | Biosecurity

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