B3

End-user Update

DOC

B3 Conference

28-29th May2014

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Outline

• Recent changes on DOC

• Conservation benefits from B3

– Direct benefit to GWB eradication

– Indirect benefits - recent years

• Future priorities

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Recent Changes in DOC

• Restructure of Science and Technical – 2 years ago

– Centrally managed, better coordinated

– Stable

• Restructure of operations

– Sept 2013

– Service Delivery – severe pressure

– Partnerships – new teams throughout DOC

– Improving

• Boundary changes, larger Regions

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Conservation Benefits from B3 • DOC Eradication pgm – exception to the rule • Effectiveness of techniques used

• Develop remote detection/surveillance tool

• AgResearch

– Detection efficacy – passive, active, general and follow-up surveillance

– Model spatial extent and population trends

– ID hot spots and habitat preferences

– Phenology model to predict seasonality

– Genetic diversity – origin, new

immigrants

• Plant & Food Research

– Odour and visual lure

development

– Parasitoid augmentation

• Luminaries visit April 2013

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Conservation Benefits from B3

• Other Programmes

• Provided to many other programmes where there is

indirect benefit from a wide range of B3 outputs,

implemented by MPI - across all 5 themes

• Launch of the International Plant Sentinel Network

(IPSN) Dunedin 2013

– Myrtle rust prediction - verified

– Network provides massive global collaboration

potential

• Pathway Risk Factors: organisms associated with soil

found on sea freight entering NZ

– Phytophthora entry risk

– Red Imported Fire Ant (RIFA)

• Improved aerial application methods for wilding pine

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Conservation Benefits from B3

• Other Programmes contd

• Improvements in assessing host range of deliberate and

accidental introductions

– Electrical Penetration Graph (EPG) technique for sap

sucking insect invaders – compares ingestion time

with probing time. Brown Marmorated Stink Bug?

– Improved risk assessment for non-target host

determination for BCA. Cleopus

japonicus for buddleja cf threatened

Hebe speciosa

– - Improved analysis

– of host specificity

– testing –

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Future Priorities

• Any detection technique for hitchhikers, especially

associated with the containerized freight pathway

– Future Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

– Likely entry of GWB, RIFA, Painted Apple Moth.

Hadda beetle.

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Hadda beetle on Poroporo 2011

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Future Priorities

• New efficient and workable surveillance methods

– Remote monitoring for early detection of invertebrates

– BMSB – network of traps = fruit fly?

– RIFA

• Improving surveillance efficacy by development of

methods to measure effectiveness of surveillance,

including pathogens – GWB, myrtle rust

– Measures to confirm absence at end of eradications -

RIFA

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Future Priorities

• Economic, Environmental and Social consequences of

incursions – John Lovett

• How do we measure or predict these?

• Cost benefit analysis of environmental values

– GWB x4, Kauri dieback

– Willingness to pay – The Impact of Wilding Trees on Indigenous Biodiversity: A Choice Modelling

Study. Geoffrey N. Kerr & Basil M.H. Sharp. Agribusiness and Economics

Research Unit Research Report No. 303. Lincoln University. December

2007. http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/Documents/4020_RR303w_s13361.pdf

• Social Acceptance of Future Eradication Techniques

– Especially in urban environments around ports –

likely theatre of engagement

– Targeted aerial campaigns

• Improved aerial application of formulations for eradication

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• Questions?

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DOC High Priorities • R3.2 Risk Grouping: Native Ecosystems

– 1) Understanding Risk Analysis,

– 2) Review of Non-Indigenous Species in Native Ecosystems,

– 3) Invaders to Indigenous Ecosystems, and

– 4) Expatriate Plants

• R5.1 Impact Prediction: Pre-border Risk Identification and Assessment

• R5.2 Impact Prediction: Improvements in Assessing Host Range of Deliberate and Accidental Introductions R5.3 Impact Prediction: Post-border Evaluation of Impacts

• P1.1 Detection Tools P2.2 New Risk Reduction Options: Better Targeted Interventions Against Transported Soil P3 Compliance Measures

• S1.1 New Surveillance Methods: Targeted Trapping for Key Invertebrate Pests S1.2 New Surveillance Methods: Remote Monitoring for Early Detection of Invertebrates

• E2.1 New Eradication Tools: Social Acceptance of Future Eradication Techniques REMOVED

• E3.1 Application Technology: Improved Aerial and Ground-Based Application of Formulations for Eradication