The department is urging all producers in the region to review their on-farm biosecurity practices in response to the ...

He is taking the Government’s biosecurity experts with him. “As the weather progresses and heats up there it is becoming a biosecurity matter,” Mr Furner said. The Minister could not say how many ...

Biosecurity Queensland has received initial test results on samples taken from 25 horses at the Cawarral horse nursery. All of the results were clear except for one horse, which showed a positive ...

Some senior cabinet ministers are pushing to have biosecurity taken over by the new Australian Border Froce (ABF) to streamline operations and save money, the ABC has reported. Biosecurity operations ...

An invasive oyster species that can reach sexual maturity in three months and grow to up to 24 centimetres is spreading in Australia. The Suminoe or Chinese river oyster competes with native species, ...

Queensland has recorded its first case of the deadly Hendra virus in three years. The detection has reignited calls to lift vaccination rates as the state moves into its peak horse sport season.

A GOLD Coast prawn farm boss has slammed a new biosecurity advertisement calling on the public to stop white spot disease from being introduced into local waterways. Gold Coast Tiger Prawns general ...

A parasite mite that attacks and feeds on honey bees has been detected in Queensland for the first time. Biosecurity Queensland said initial samples from a recreational apiary in the Lockyer Valley ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Sunshine Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. A Biosecurity Queensland spokeswoman confirmed a total of 10 reports had been made for destructive ...

The invasive pests were first detected at BHP’s Broadmeadow coal mine in Moranbah on July 9, traced back to a shipment of bricks transported more than 800km from south-east Queensland. The nests were ...

A surveillance trap caught a single male fly in Mount Roskill two weeks ago. Biosecurity New Zealand says staff have been visiting markets - alongside increasing surveillance, trapping, and ...

Creating a biosecurity crisis is shockingly simple. In the 1850s, Jane Paterson, a settler near Albury planted seeds of a European plant with an attractive purple flower in her garden. She had no way ...