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• Biosecurity Act: Administration

• Ruminant feed ban regulations

• Wool risk analysis

• New arrangements between MAF and ERMA New Zealand for containment facilities

• Approving animal ID systems

• Development of pest management strategies for exotic animal diseases

• Two new SOEs doing business

• Biosecurity Act: Administration and enforcement

• MAF’s new BSE surveillance programme

• Honey and propolis from Pitcairn Island

• Risk analysis on the importation of specified poultry products

• Biosecurity Council policy statement on interdepartmental consultation

• Risk analysis

• New Biosecurity Authority begins work

• Perspectives on the SPS agreement

• Draft biosecurity strategy for New Zealand

• Animal health surveillance

• Grazing of livestock on Crater Block

• Recognition of South Africa’s scrapie-free status

• Leptospirosis safeguards during imports of horses

• New direction for biosecurity

• The SPS agreement and New Zealand’s primary industries

• Prepared for exotic diseases of animals

• Protecting New Zealand’s biosecurity: links with other national groups

• New containment laboratory at the National Centre for Disease Investigation

• The new role of the OIE in international trade

• Initiative on biosecurity cooperation with Australia

• Progress towards a biosecurity strategy for New Zealand

• Resumption of importation of bovine semen from the United Kingdom

• Imported animals, embryos and semen information

• Protecting New Zealand’s biosecurity: international linkages

• The new trading rules: major challenges for a domestic industry

• Ruminant protein regulations

• Y2K and exotic animal disease emergency response

• South African origin goats will be released from quarantine

• Fragile ecosystems under threat?

• Biosecurity research strategy

• Bioresearch areas for New Zealand

• Plans to enhance laboratory diagnosis of exotic diseases

• Horse and horse semen import risk analysis

• New policy statement sets out commitment to consult

• MAF Biosecurity Authority policy statement on consultation

• Towards a national biosecurity strategy

• Towards a biosecurity strategy for New Zealand

• Disclosure of information for voluntary disease programmes

• Biosecurity Authority to launch new publication

• Notifiable organisms

• Notifiable organisms affecting animals

• Revised risk analysis on chicken meat imports

• Serious honey bee parasite found in New Zealand

• World organisation for animal health meets

• Varroa decision explained

• Tightening the biosecurity net

• Draft risk analysis policy for consultation

• Process for conducting import risk analyses

• Animal welfare – a growth area

• Dutch elm disease under control

• Painted apple moth update

• Interim Commission on Phytosanitary Measures

• Risk Group 2 pests

• Biosecurity research areas agreed

• Bovine Tb strategy

• Biosecurity begins away from home

• Tb tests approved

• Appropriate level of protection: the concept

• Varroa update

• Termites down and out in Otorohanga?

• Noxious weeds knocked back

• A new era in animal welfare

• Australians address layer hen standards

• Massey animal welfare centre launched

• On the border: keeping unwanted invaders at bay

• Contaminated machinery refused entry

• K9 capers

• The thin green line: MAF’s Enforcement Unit

• EU prosecutions

• Fumigation operator suspended

• Border Management Group responsibilities

• Sparrow deaths investigated

• Varroa update

• Johne’s disease review completed

• Risk disk: a risk analysis resource on CD

• MAF Biosecurity contracts: how the system works

• Canine brucellosis tests under scrutiny

• Animal Welfare Act sets key advisory committees in law

• Review of consultative forums

• Interceptions of black widow spiders on California grapes

• Bilateral quarantine arrangement for importation of plant propagation material

• Gum leaf skeletoniser kept in check

• International liaison

• Import requirements for bulbs under review

• Enforcement: MAF’s frontline biosecurity ‘police’

• Watershed year for New Zealand biosecurity

• Instant fines from July 2001

• Shipping container survey

• Biosecurity strategy development team up and running

• Argentine ant revisited

• Yellow flower wasp

• Animal welfare and international trade

• Parrot scam

• On-farm surveillance – a key strand in the biosecurity net

• Foot and mouth disease response

• Bovine Tb strategy

• Risk analysis policy

• Biosecurity cooperation with Australia

• New Zealand’s contribution in world animal health body

• Welfare of animals on inter-island transport

• Devil’s tail tearthumb threatens ecosystems

• Australian guava moth

• Pest plant accord

• Biosecurity down under – protecting the marine environment

• Educating people about biosecurity

• Biosecurity campaign: Stand Together – Protect New Zealand

• Southern saltmarsh mosquito

• Improving animal health surveillance

• Argentine ant control trials

• Approved organisations under Animal Welfare Act

• Salmonella link possible between sparrows and humans

• Tomato disease detected

• Plant pest surveillance

• Foot and mouth disease: A farmer’s story

• My first 100 days as biosecurity minister...

• Disease emergency: are we prepared?

• When there is an exotic animal disease outbreak overseas

• Sea container review

• Interim Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (ICPM): an update

• Bovine Tb strategy review

• No sign of gypsy moth

• Fresh cut flowers and foliage review

• NZ hosts trans-Tasman animal welfare meeting

• Expensive produce: $200 instant fines introduced

• Should pig feeding be regulated?

• BSE: an international public health, animal health and trade issue

• Precaution and the management of biosecurity risks

• More resources needed for international plant work

• Import risk analysis for Cordyline and Dracaena

• Painted apple moth response report released

• Sudden oak death – new disease identified in US

• Developing codes of welfare: a consultative process

• Pipfruit industry certification post deregulation

• Californian grapes back on the menu

• Awareness campaign set for lift-off

• Hull fouling

• What happens to the leftovers?

• Access requested for WA honey

• Uncooked pig meat imports suspended

• New bird quarantine facility

• Links between child and animal abuse

• Kiwi vets succeed in new animal welfare exam

• Biosecurity Amendment Bill

• Protect New Zealand, Tiakina Aotearoa - Biosecurity campaign launched

• Hydatids-free status near

• Southern saltmarsh mosquito control/eradication strategy

• Killer fungus threatens native frog species

• Keeping rescue squads in express lane

• Reinforcing New Zealand’s BSE-free status

• Draft slaughter code to balance religious, welfare values

• Animal welfare in Philippines – NZ lends a hand

• No further signs of Australian beetle

• Seeking a smoother ride

• Biosecurity programme – expectations versus reality?

• New disease diagnosed in goats and cattle

• South Island remains varroa free

• Fire ants

• Climate change impact on biosecurity

• Painted apple moth eradication programme

• Australian pest down but not out

• Phytosanitary certificate

• Methyl bromide under spotlight

• Ensuring imported seeds contain no GM material

• Praise for biosecurity frontliners

• Ensuring insects are DOA

• Technical advisory groups

• MmmLC not a significant threat

• Yellow flower (scoliid) wasp response

• Poultry welfare

• Animal welfare on the farm

• Operational research

• Bovine Tb Board of Inquiry

• Marine biosecurity

• What we really know about biosecurity

• Saltmarsh mosquito in Kaipara Harbour

• Role of fungi and bacteria in biosecurity

• Varroa update

• Risk analysis handbook a first

• Independent welfare reviewers

• Animal welfare conference

• Sea container survey

• Treating imported used tyres

• World class service at animal health reference lab

• Hotline service

• Avian influenza

• Argali sheep

• Varroa alert: South Island apiary cleared

• Paper wasp and crazy ant

• Shipping committee meets

• Forest pest trapping programme

• New plant pests

• Air transport standards for animal welfare

• Black Ferns on the ball for biosecurity

• New Zealand risk analysis expert honoured by OIE

• Protect New Zealand week gets rolling

• Biological diversity and biosafety protocol

• Container survey update

• Giant African snails

• Lettuce aphid spreads

• OIE animal welfare mandate

• Increased sheep and goat surveillance for TSEs

• Options for varroa management

• Aussie biosecurity mascot visits

• Human impacts on New Zealand’s environment

• Hydatids-free status a step closer

• Chronic wasting disease surveillance stepped up

• Live animal export assurance changes

• Pecking order and the welfare of chickens

• Pain expert visits

• Tourist pays price for smuggling budwood

• Eucalypt pests cross Tasman

• Sex pheromone trap developed

• Swift Korean response to FMD

• NZ biosecurity impresses Hawaiian visitor

• Surveillance review

• Imports of table grapes resumed

• Regional councils’ biosecurity role

• Anthrax simulation

• Aquatic biodiversity and biosecurity

• Renewed commitment to Tb vector control

• Dutch elm disease can still be eradicated

• International congress on animal use in science

• Parrot disease threatens native species

• No major change to BSE code

• Anthrax simulation a success

• Red suited man in biosecurity bust

• Computer modelling reduces animal use in research

• Asian gypsy moth conference

• Biosecurity measures for transtasman trade streamlined

• Root weevil discovered on imported grapes

• Downy mildew in carnations

• Deep burial for damaged wheat

• Painted apple moth aerial strategy working

• Gum leaf skeletoniser

• Sudden oak death

• Strong links with Massey

• Animal use in life sciences

• OIE animal welfare group

• Pre-shipment car clearances in Japan

• Queensland fruit fly exercise

• Animal abuse and child abuse links

• Exotic ants

• Campaign against invasive species

• Significant year for biosecurity

• Operational planning for Biosecurity Strategy

• Exports of live animals and germplasm

• Quarantine for all imported dogs?

• Protecting animals used in film making

• Salmonella brandenburg vaccine

• International plant pathology conference

• The surveillance paradox

• Pine pitch canker

• Fall webworm found in Auckland

• Waikato biodiversity project

• Biosecurity risk from international yachts

• Animal biosecurity surveillance

• Use of equivalences in animal trade

• Australian quarantine review

• Quarantine clearances for East Timor forces

• Embryo transfer conference

• Requirements for experimental seed imports

• Plum pox ruled out

• Animal disease response capability to be beefed up

• Regional council biocontrol programmes

• Import health standard development reviewed

• HSNO amendment before select committee

• Animal ethics committees

• Border and import permit charges

• UK animal welfare experience

• Top rating Border Patrol

• Moth response update

• South Island focus for varroa protection

• Varroa transitional management programme

• New charges for live animal exports

• Red fire ant response stood down

• Broiler chicken code of welfare introduced

• Animal welfare on Last Samurai set

• Plant pest incursion investigation team

• Welfare of dogs used in teaching

• Standard for wood packaging materials

• Next-generation quarantine x-ray technology

• Regional strategy for persistent tussock pest

• Major changes to container pathway

• Biosecurity strategy launched

• Ballast water convention closer

• Marine biosecurity risk management

• Ruminant protein regulations

• Prioritising import health standards

• What to do if a snake bites you

• Horowhenua onions OK for Australia

• Pest response brings scientific collaboration

• Fungus fright

• Self-help approach to possum control

• New pig disease provisionally confirmed

• Risk analysis for imported sheep and goat genetics

• Varroa control line moved

• Gum leaf skeletoniser management

• Brown rot response exercise

• Post-entry quarantine for plant material

• ANZCCART conference report

• Welfare issues for broilers and layers

• New transitional facility standard for sea containers

• Avian risk analyses

• Science, research and biosecurity

• California Newcastle disease outbreak

• Varroa National Pest Management Strategy

• Dealing with Undaria

• Wildlife disease surveillance

• Import health standard for sea containers

• Exercise Barrier

• Moth response strategies endorsed

• NAWAC gets tick of approval

• Wildlife management congress

• Dutch elm disease

• Reflecting on animal welfare changes

• Asian gypsy moth

• Sea transport of animals

• Protecting Pacific nations from ant invasion

• Biosecurity Strategy implementation

• Carcass disposal workshop

• Vietnam FMD control project

• Australia-New Zealand quarantine discussions

• Avian influenza

• New biosecurity system taking shape

• A New Zealand FMD vaccine bank

• Ants targeted

• Enhancing sea container risk management

• Simplifying risk assessment of air passengers

• Container inspection training pays off

• Southern saltmarsh mosquito

• Plant pest surveillance

• Timely interception of Gypsy moth

• Protecting our waters from invasive weeds

• Domesticated animal surveillance review

• NZ expert invited to Cambodia

• Pig industry to attempt disease eradication

• Pitch canker – biosecurity success story

• Painted apple moth – days numbered

• Powdery mildew on capsicums

• Biosecurity clearances for cruise ships

• Ships’ ballast convention adopted

• Research builds welfare science base

• Welfare of sheep in live shipments debated

• Developing a risk management framework

• Bagpipes, BSE and bullets

• Wireworm in New Zealand ostriches

• Pacific ant prevention plan

• Mathematical modelling to predict pest spread

• Surveillance for forestry pests

• Container checks prove their worth

• Blueberry rust blows in

• GMO testing methods

• Safeguarding the vitality of our lakes

• Foundations laid for new biosecurity agency

• Molecular scientists compare notes

• Why reindeer had to stay at home

• Animal use in research and teaching: latest stats

• Gumleaf skeletoniser

• Marine biosecurity capability enhanced

• Quarantine – Island style

• Citrus canker in Australia

• Auditing offshore treatment facilities

• Log exports to India

• Meeting expectations of the Biosecurity Strategy

• Biosecurity risks for sub-Antarctic islands

• Koi carp in Waikato

• Southern saltmarsh mosquito eradication update

• Undariamanagement programmes to cease

• Shipping company takes initiative

• Welfare aspects of wildlife marking

• Wheat virus detected in Canterbury

• Exotic disease vaccines in spotlight

• Wildlife surveillance research

• New biosecurity structure: who does what?

• Biosecurity New Zealand directors appointed

• Contingency plans for large-scale carcass disposal

• Aerial spraying over urban areas

• Controlling rabbits with biocide

• Bovine Tb strategy

• National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies

• Risk from pinewood nematode

• Research into humane traps recognised

• Reflections and themes from Biosecurity Summit

• FMD: The story we hope we never write

• New RNZSPCA Director appointed

• Weedbusters is 1

• Market access for kumara

• Predators Gallop exercise

• Knowing what’s expected in an incursion response

• Let’s talk: Lessons from the PAM programme

• Health monitoring following eradication programme

• Welcome home with a sting in the tail

• Invasive algae may be here to stay

• Exercise Taurus testing national biosecurity system

• Key welfare codes issued

• Use of methyl bromide in New Zealand

• Vessel biofouling research to measure marine biosecurity risk

• MAF role in National Response Centre (NRC)

• 100 of the worst invaders: how do we rate?

• Foot and mouth disease field exercise successful

• Southern saltmarsh mosquito eradication update

• Plans to bring in a new organism? Ask ERMA NZ first

• New organisms: How MAF ensures controls and standards are met

• Operation Waiheke

• Exercise Taurus: Phase one

• Plant quarantine resources boosted

• Australian subterranean termites eradicated

• Marron: Successful inter-agency collaboration

• e-Learning Award

• Keeping watch on aquatic pests

• National invasive ant programme update

• Asian gypsy moth eradicated

• Right story, wrong amphibian

• Fall webworm response update

• New ERMA Chief Executive announced

• Inspectors on animal welfare front lines

• Codes of welfare

• The welfare of animals during Operation Waiheke

• Update for key animal welfare publications

• News from the National Animal Welfare

• Advisory Committee (NAWAC)

• Ruminant protein control programme audits

• Exercise Taurus: Phase II

• Air curtain incinerator trial shows promise

• Carcass burial planning formalised

• Know the enemy

• Dutch elm disease

• Spray programme effective against Florida red scale

• $80 million pest eradicated

• Import standard manages disease risk from imported meal

• Risk of herbicide-resistant seed establishing extremely low

• National invasive ant surveillance

• Didymo containment programme ramped up

• Moth reports show safe, responsible attitude to public health

• Whither, whitefly?

• Nice or nasty plants

• People in Biosecurity

• Biosecurity monitoring: Are there any holes in the net?

• Rare honour for New Zealand animal welfare leader

• Soya meal the culprit in GM maize scare

• Mainland pests threaten Chathams biosecurity

• Managing risk pathways key to marine biosecurity

• (Not) Wanted: Bulbul bullies

• Exotic sea squirt finds under investigation

• A partnership to protect Fiordland’s marine environment

• With enemies like these

• People in Biosecurity

• Weedy gang of four in our sights

• Livestock saleyards – what’s the risk?

• Public participation key to didymo management

• A strategic approach to biosecurity science

• Disease detectives

• RFID technology

• Planning for national centre at Wallaceville continues

• The science behind border protection

• Biological control of pests

• People in Biosecurity

• Education officer appointed

• Avian influenza

• Keeping the South varroa free

• Nationwide surveillance for sea squirt

• Pitch canker simulation an outstanding success

• Pacific Island quarantine awareness programme

• Local initiatives boost ‘Know the Enemy’ campaign

• New era for high-risk site surveillance

• Revamped gypsy moth programme

• Surfing New Zealand’s biosecurity

• Personal responsibility key to stopping didymo

• Pest fish threaten ecosystems

• Fish & Game New Zealand

• Biosecurity opportunities and risks

• Local heroes wanted for 2006 Weedbusters awards

• Border fees under review

• Painful husbandry procedures: code issued

• Risk assessment for Btk products being updated

• PAM spray cleared by toxicologist

• Plant pest list under review

• Putting our heads together: BSE surveillance targets

• Ruminant protein requirements tightened

• Quick action over maize disease

• Subterranean termites found in Nelson

• MAF–SPCA Memorandum of Understanding

• Composting of poultry carcasses

• Proposed changes to border clearance fees

• Aquatic pest weed found in Timaru

• Risk analysis: first tool in the biosecurity kit

• Avian influenza surveillance stepped up

• BNZ head elected president of world animal health body

• Universal animal identification system proposed

• Foot and mouth disease vaccine supply secured

• Official BSE freedom status for New Zealand

• MAF goes to the Fieldays

• Gypsy moth levy unchanged

• Getting in touch on marine biosecurity

• Biosecurity spinoff for boatwash facility

• Noogoora bur found

• Stricter rules for wood packaging

• Doing things right

• Tools for destruction of risk goods

• Fungus hits radiata pine

• Reducing biosecurity risk for the Chatham Islands

• The enemy within

• Ten years of x-ray technology on the front lines

• Hot science on a cold night

• Varroa heads south

• Dutch elm disease field response activities: 2005/06

• Red imported fire ants found

• Tomato psyllid detected in New Zealand

• Guava rust a step closer to New Zealand

• Honey import health standard issued

• New airport amnesty bins

• Pacific off-shore container management programme

• Export of dogs and cats to the United Kingdom

• Aquatic animal diseases and risk analysis

• What’s in our coastal waters?

• National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Disease – Wallaceville

• Antarctica under biosecurity threat

• Hot dip for taro

• Editorial - Global and local angles for Biosecurity Summit

• Didymo - 'Nuking' not an option - knowledge and awareness the key

• Caterpillar can leave a nasty wheal

• Communication - one of the keys to effective marine biosecurity

• Accord to protect New Zealand from harmful weeds

• Committee chairpersons reappointed

• Assessing biosecurity risk of 'living dinosaur'

• Emergency hotline a valuable frontline service

• Pest discoveries

• New glasshouses to help in fight against invasive new species

• Funding review of exports and treatment suppliers 2006 - 2007

• Workshop considers pain relief for production animals

• What's news, pussycat?

• Pest Watch: 07/08/2006 - 15/09/2006

• Editorial - International Trade Agreements

• Didymo - Concerns go global

• Children getting 'Check, Clean, Dry' didymo message

• Waterways users hold key to stopping didymo

• Successful handover of mosquito eradication programme

• Uplifting experience for Amagh

• Red imported fire ant - Response update (Whirinaki 2006)

• Excellence in the humane use of animals recognised

• Illegal Australian immigrants dealt with

• Biosecurity Summit 2006

• Defenders of the peace: New Zealand's marine parasites versus exotic crabs?

• Asian Gypsy Moth: How likely is it to establish in New Zealand?

• Imported vehicles and machinery review: Stopping unwanted hitch hikers

• Three-way animal welfare MOU

• Animal welfare in the 'Fast Food Nation'

• Queenslanders pegging back fire ant incursion

• Marine biosecurity collaboration

• Editorial - Partnership the key ingredient for social marketing success

• Didymo control research showing promise

• Border biosecurity science - It's still about people

• The human paradox - Risk-shy adventurers need to be involved in science

• Port manager calls for better coordination

• Delicate balancing act

• Feedback on imported vehicle and machinery risk analysis sort

• Fire ant eradicated at Port of Napier

• Audit finds high compliance with ruminant protein regulations

• It's a wrap! - Smothering squirts on HMNZS Canterbury

• Inter-island travellers get the Check, Clean, Dry message

• International collaborations help facilitate trade

• Consultative committee visits Auckland border biosecurity facilities

• National workshop for animal ethics committees

• The Animal Welfare Committee - the first 500 days

• I don't want half a dog ...

• Goodbye and good luck

• Funding review of plant and forestry exports

• National Animal Welfare Emergency Management Group activities

• Online national mosquito surveillance database

• Editorial - Biosecurity activities create impressive array of career choices

• Multidisciplinary approach to biosecurity at University of Canterbury

• Lincoln University appoints Professor in Plant Biosecurity

• Key biosecurity and welfare role for veterinary profession

• Masters course at the University of Waikato

• MAF careers in biosecurity: skills keenly sought

• Biosecurity careers profile: Putting science qualifications to work

• Multidisciplinary biosecurity teams at regional council level

• Red imported fire ant response gathers speed

• Code of Welfare for Companion Cats issued

• Nelson emphasis shifts to slowing spread

• Queenly outing for biosecurity message

• Hull-wrap technique shows promise

• Biosystematics and biosecurity

• Influx of exotic flies and ticks a continuing challenge

• Multi-agency effort to catch wildlife criminals

• Editorial - Animal welfare - key domestic and international developments of operational and strategic significance

• Animal law with teeth - Legislative change and legal advocacy in the 21st century

• Afghanistan - Kiwis contribute to animal welfare in war-torn country

• Identifying farms during an incursion response

• Animal welfare during international transport

• Post-border detection of plant pests improved

• Operation Kadridri - surveillance for invasive ants

• Styela sea squirt response: update

• Three Rs programme promoting humane science

• Shellfish toxin testing without using animals

• Welfare Quality research programme backs EU action plan

• Fish pain revisited

• National Animal Welfare Emergency Management Group - Coordinating welfare response to natural disasters

• From advice on 1080 to monitoring global trends - all in a day's work for Animal Welfare group

• Codes of welfare - how are they developed?

• Forestry focus for national certificates

• Vertebrate Pests Committee

• Editorial - Improving the way we manage established pests

• What's on your boat's bottom?

• Weed programme snuffing out purple loosestrife in Canterbury

• Kiwi ingenuity brought to bear on marine pests

• $10,000 fine for seahorse powder importation

• Pest management researcher's career acknowledged

• Charlotte's new web

• New code sets out principles of care for deer

• Endothall trial on hornwort in the Wairarapa

• Getting the drift of aerial spraying

• Biocontrol research: understanding what makes possums tick

• Animal welfare and pest control

• Marine pest management partnership: Building New Zealand's internal marine pest management capability

• National Pest Plant Accord - Where to from here?

• Biosecurity road to FAME: Participants sought for market experience programme

• Editorial - Biosecurity surveillance - a key contributor to achieving biosecurity outcomes

• The battle for the Pacific: Keeping invasive ants at bay

• What's growing on down under? - Marine biological baseline surveys reveal 18 new exotic invaders

• Pest ahoy! Getting boaties, divers and swimmers on the biosecurity lookout

• Avian influenza surveillance expands

• Fruit fly alert: Vigilant scout does the right thing

• She's apples: Taiwan crisis concludes

• Response to a marine incursion of Styela clava

• International recognition

• Norm Hewitt's mission: 'One of the Family' campaign promotes empathy

• Animal law issues canvassed at Harvard conference

• Editorial - Science: the foundation of biosecurity

• Fluorescent fish spark GM response

• Early detection, early action key to incursion response

• Breeding varroa-tolerant honey bee stock

• Spring-fed creeks: Is it something in the water?

• River control trial shows promise

• Didymo effects on river invertebrates: not as bad as feared?

• Preventing the establishment of exotic mosquitoes in New Zealand

• China likely source of Asian gypsy moth larva

• Kiwi snake catchers train with the real thing

• A biosecurity curriculum for New Zealand?

• NETS visitors impressed with plastic wrap technique

• New database to link invertebrates with host plants

• Inaugural International Pacific Invasive Ant Conference

• Four-way border governance group

• Editorial - New centre continues proud tradition

• Tree planting underlines closer relationship between NCBID and Maori

• New ESR labs opening in 2008

• Animal welfare and international trade strategy

• WOW! Is that a pest in your costume?

• Unwanted pests arrive in comfort

• Full steam ahead for revamped border requirements and inspection system

• Matauranga Maori important component of Biosecurity Science Strategy

• Didymo: New model helps build likely growth picture

• Molecular genetic tools to detect didymo earlier

• Valuable learning experience on testing for vector-borne diseases

• Animal welfare and the OIE

• Editorial - A big year for MAF Biosecurity New Zealand

• Passengers and cruise industry welcome new initiatives

• Didymo: Freshwater users getting the message

• 1080 reassessment decision

• Biosecurity Summit: MAF, trade and the cargo pathway

• Biosecurity Summit: Collaboration at the border

• Biosecurity Summit: Biosecurity integral to dairy industry success

• Biosecurity Summit: Process, tools and technology at the border

• The future - outcome-based codes of welfare

• Sixth international conference on replacement and humane use of animals in experiments

• The link between animal abuse and human violence

• Editorial - Aligning our Biosecurity Efforts

• Leverage for Biodiversity Protection on Private Land

• New Zealand's Forest Survey Activities Praised

• Incursion Investigators Support Australian Equine Influenza Response

• Getting Vets up to speed on Equine Influenza

• Equine influenza: Links with equine groups essential for disease preparedness

• Making Work a Breeze at Windy Waterfront

• Assisi Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animal Welfare

• Europeans developing a common vision for animal welfare

• Food animal agriculture in 2020

• Equine Influenza: A laboratory learning experience in an exotic disease response

• Responding to exotic disease alerts - the role of IDC Wallaceville

• Conservation management strategies

• Coordination adds value to pest management programmes

• Australian animal welfare workshop considers international perspectives

• Editorial - Better systems + better communications = better incursion responses

• Biosecurity integral to long-term planning

• Avian and pandemic influenza preparedness activities: 2007

• Hands across the Tasman: How the International Animal Health Emergency Reserve would work

• On track for eradication

• Protecting and promoting human health

• Australian termites in New Zealand

• Soil solarisation to eradicate boil smut

• So where the bloody hell are the grapes?

• Equine influenza vaccination - a complex issue

• Expat plant communities useful biosecurity sentinels

• Pests and Diseases Image Library workshop

• Phytophthora kernoviae: Past investigation throws up new answers

• New biosecurity response model

• Editorial - Building partnerships to strengthen readiness and response

• MAF and oil industry work together to protect New Zealand

• Northland battles Manchurian wild rice

• Livestock production and processing: coordination of animal welfare compliance and enforcement management

• New rules around vehicle emissions create busy spell for MAFBNZ car inspectors

• Platypus threaten living cultural treasures

• Pyp grass response: a partnership in action!

• If bird flu broke out, how would DOC cope?

• National Interest Pest Responses: A working partnership

• Biosecurity surveillance for small forest plantations

• MAFBNZ and NZEHA work together to prevent and control equine disease

• AgResearch and ESR scientists work to prevent salmonella epidemics

• Massey University OIE Animal Welfare Centre

• New Farm Forestry Association website on forest pests and diseases

• Editorial - Securing future market access through animal identification and tracing

• New National Animal Identification and Tracing system approved

• VectorNet: A tool to plan, manage and control pest control activities

• Pole position for V8 pre-inspection

• Canoe club gets serious about didymo

• Gypsy moth levy unchanged in 2008-09

• Snake training put to good use in Tauranga

• Critical veterinary shortage in Pacific islands

• Ornamental fish focus for PhD project

• Better communication on welfare urged

• Where chickens may roost

• Editorial - Good Diagnostics Demands Good Science

• Plant Pest and Disease Focus for Laboratories

• Expansion of Quarantine Capabilities

• Insects Working 'Leg-in-Hand' With Gardeners

• Working together to make a difference at the border: Diagnostic training for Fiji Quarantine and Inspection Service

• Trade Pathway for Table Grapes from Mexico Reinstated

• Only Teamwork Can Make a Team Work

• Veterinary Forensics a Tool in Animal Cruelty Cases

• Cutting Didymo Off at the Pass

• Bio-control for Glassy-winged Sharpshooter in Cook Islands

• Survey Uncovers New Viruses in New Zealand's Allium Crops

• New Zealander Leads International Animal Welfare Efforts Following Myanmar Disaster

• Quality Fruit Exports Ensured Through Pre-inspection Programme

• Lessons Learnt from Emergency Medical Evacuation

• DNA Fingerprinting Lifted Lid on Bovine Tb

• Marine Invasive Taxonomic Service

• Diagnostics and Detective Work: Learning What Ails New Zealand Trees

• New 'Candidatus Liberibacter' Species Infecting Solanaceous Crops

• Remote Microscopy Connects us to Experts through Internet

• Laboratory Accreditation Enhances International Credibility

• Lincoln Diagnostic Lab Moves to New Facility

• Animal Care: Many benefits from voluntary accreditation

• Animal Welfare Disaster Management Course

• 13th International Congress on Infectious Diseases: Avian influenza remains in the spotlight

• Jubilee Conference Celebrates SPCA's Achievements

• Editorial - Border Standards: Who we are and what we do

• Analysis and Profiling: using information to manage biosecurity risks at the border

• Containing Sea Container Biosecurity Risk

• Scrap Metal - full of biosecurity surprises

• Mossie Contractor Rescues Trapped Farmer

• Pest Mosquito Eliminated from Kaipara

• A day in the life of a technical writer

• Review to Reduce Risks from Imported Vehicles and Machinery

• Good Training Important for Rookies and Old Hands

• Biosecurity Inspectors - who are we?

• Certificate in Biosecurity Presentation

• Tackling Marine Pests

• Helping ID Pest Plants

• MAFBNZ no longer funding Dutch Elm Disease programme

• Biosecurity Surveillance Strategy- have your say

• Animal Welfare International Update

• Researchers Urged to Speak Out

• Animal Care Technician's Award

• Australian Science Week Attracts Kiwis

• Lab Wins Award for Seafood Toxin Test

• Bird Welfare Matters, World's Poultry Congress Told

• Varroa South Island Controlled Area Change

• Students Enjoy Seeing Inspectors in Action

• Editorial - New Zealand Biosecuirity Summit

• Biosecurity Summit highlights

• Biocontrol expert wins award

• BMAC recommends more container improvements

• Biosecurity "at speed of commerce"

• Biosecurity Science Strategy making a difference

• Science the key to fighting avian influenza

• Searching for the perfect possum control

• Tissue culture – how safe is safe?

• Diagnostic technologies – complementing new advances with old skills

• How can wildlife help detect emerging diseases?

• High tech lab-to-market challenges

• Improving sea container clearance

• Pacific port improvements pay off for NZ

• Shipping industry challenges

• Introduced marine species a major threat

• “We all pay for barnacles”

• The future of pest management

• Experiences from the World Organisation for Animal Health By Dr Rebecca Jennings

• Regional animal welfare gets a boost

• Marine biosecurity: managing risk through regional partnerships

• Raising awareness in the marine area

• FITEC outstanding achievers announced

• New MAF animal welfare magazine coming soon

• Import Health Standard consultation

• Animal manipulation statistics due

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