APFISN Webinar: Overcoming barriers to implementing biocontrol for invasive plants and invertebrates in the Asia-Pacific Region

The Asia-Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network webinar “Overcoming barriers to implementing biocontrol for invasive plants and invertebrates in the Asia-Pacific Region” was held on the 27 May 2024.

The Webinar recording can be viewed here

The Webinar featured the following four presentations:

“Weed Biological Control: Challenges and Opportunities” – Michael Day, Principal Entomologist (Honorary), Biosecurity Queensland

“Dispelling Myths and a Bad Rap: telling the modern biological control story” – Christy Martin, Program Manager and Information Officer, Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, University of Hawaii at Manoa

“African Tulip Tree – management and biocontrol challenges in Fiji” – Maika Lesubula, Senior Forestry Officer – Forest Health, Forestry Research & Development Division, Ministry of Forestry, Fiji

“Introduction of a biocontrol agent for Leptocybe invasa in Lao PDR” – Sounaly Sommany, Deputy Director, Plant quarantine Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry,Lao PDR