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Digitaria insularis also known as cotton grass or feather-top grass.
What to look for
Large, coarse, tufted grass with rough, hairy leaves. Flowers all-year round.
What you can do
Do not move plants, plant material or soil out of the Torres Strait Protected Zone to the Torres Strait…
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Chromolaena odorata
What to look for
A fast-growing shrub or scrambling weed that can grow several metres in height. The plant has branches and leaves in opposite pairs and produces bunches of fluffy white to pink flowers during June to September.
What you can do
Do not move plants, plant…
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Chrysomya bezziana
What to look for
Check any animals, birds or humans for wounds and for signs of maggots deep within the wound. Wounds that can become infested include husbandry wounds (for example ear-tagging, castration and dehorning) and relatively minor skin wounds (such as tick bites).…
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What to look for
Erratic, strange animal behaviour, such as:
drooling, attacking and biting people, animals or things for no reason, howling, twitching and running around blindly if ‘furious’ rabies
wobbly gait or difficulty walking, paralysed or in a stupor if ‘dumb’ rabies.
Animals…
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What to look for:
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) only affects pigs. Infected pigs may show signs of breathing and respiratory distress, anorexia, fever and depression. Some may have highly prominent blue ears. Infertility, abortion or birth of weak piglets can also be…
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Chilo, Sesamia and
Scirpophaga spp.
What to look forBrowning of the upper leaves and holes in the stems of sugarcane.What you can doDo not move sugarcane from Papua New Guinea into the Torres…
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Citripestis sagittiferella &
Prays endocarpa.What to look forDeformed citrus fruit or citrus fruit with pock marks on the skin.What you can doDo not move plants, plant material or fruit (…
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Diaphorina citri.
What to look for
Tiny dark psyllid insects resting at 45⁰ angle whilst feeding on young leaves.
What you can do
Do not move plants, plant material or fruit (especially citrus fruit) out of the Torres Strait Protected Zone to the Torres Strait Permanent Biosecurity…
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States and territories have primary responsibility for overseeing the manufacture and sale of pet food in Australia. For any information on current requirements, please contact the relevant authority in your state or territory.
In 2018, following a number of pet food safety incidents, a Senate…
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World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH)
The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) is an inter-governmental organisation formed in 1924. It currently has 183 member countries.
Its objectives are to:
ensure transparency in the global animal disease situation
collect, analyse and…
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