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Plantation Forestry Biosecurity Plan Review logo
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Plantation Forestry Biosecurity Plan Review

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

This project aims to work with forest stakeholders to review and update the Plantation Forest Biosecurity Plan. This strategic plan aims to inform and guide capacity-building forest biosecurity R&D and operational activities to ensure Australia’s freedom from exotic forest pests.

20 Jun 2019 - 15 Dec 2023

Victoria, Australia

Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative Phase II 2021-23 logo
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Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative Phase II 2021-23

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

The Plant Biosecurity Research Initiative supports cross-sectoral research development and extension to minimise the damaging consequences caused by biosecurity threats to Australian plant industries. This includes endemic and exotic pests, diseases and weeds that affect Australia’s plant industries, community and the environment. This work follows on from the initial Plant...

7 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2023

Victoria, Australia

A model system for the discovery and development of biocontrol agents against forest pests logo
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A model system for the discovery and development of biocontrol agents against forest pests

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

The primary aim of this project is to improve the biological control of Gonipterus weevils in Australian and overseas eucalypt plantations. Biological control is an important component of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems in plantation forestry worldwide. Classical Biological Control (CBC; that is, introduction of a natural enemy of non-native...

23 Jun 2017 - 30 Dec 2020

Victoria, Australia

Giant Pine Scale Chemical Control logo
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Giant Pine Scale Chemical Control

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

Giant pine scale (Marchalina hellenica) is a scale insect that sucks the sap of pine trees. If established, the insect poses a threat to Australia’s softwood plantation industry by causing branch dieback, gradual desiccation and eventually tree death. This project aims to identify chemical control options suitable for plantation managers...

8 Jun 2018 - 15 Jun 2021

Victoria, Australia

The Industry Plantation Management Group - Applied Research and Extension logo
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The Industry Plantation Management Group - Applied Research and Extension

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

This five-year program, is focussed on providing the capacity to enable multi-party coordination of regional or national scale applied R,D&E projects from project development, through to funding, implementation, reporting, extension and industry adoption for the Australian plantation forestry industry. The outcomes being improved coordination of industry-led collaborative R&D projects with...

22 Jun 2018 - 15 Jun 2023

Victoria, Australia

Giant Pine Scale Postgraduate Research Scholarship Agreement logo
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Giant Pine Scale Postgraduate Research Scholarship Agreement

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

Giant Pine Scale (Marchalina hellenica) is a scale insect that sucks the sap of pine trees. If established, the insect poses a threat to Australia’s softwood plantation industry, by causing branch dieback, desiccation and eventual tree death. This post graduate research scholarship will focus on gathering data on the biology...

20 Sep 2018 - 20 Sep 2020

Victoria, Australia

Developing exotic pest surveillance capacity in high risk areas across Australia logo
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Developing exotic pest surveillance capacity in high risk areas across Australia

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

By improving exotic forest/tree pest surveillance capability across Australia, this project aims to support early detection and mitigate the adverse impact of pests on native forests, plantations and urban trees.

12 Jun 2020 - 12 Dec 2021

Victoria, Australia

Optimising productivity of hardwood plantations: yield gap analysis for Eucalyptus globulus plantations in southern Australia logo
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Optimising productivity of hardwood plantations: yield gap analysis for Eucalyptus globulus plantations in southern Australia

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

By defining the potential yield of plantations, estimating the gap between potential and actual yield, and attributing parts of the gap to major limiting factors, this project will provide a framework for making decisions on the location of plantations and the improvement of yields due to silvicultural practices. These might...

25 Jun 2020 - 30 May 2022

Victoria, Australia

Database capture of individual significant-scale Australian forestry plantation fire losses logo
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Database capture of individual significant-scale Australian forestry plantation fire losses

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

The aim of this project is to build a knowledge base that will assist with risk management and strategic planning. Taking into account only the larger-scale losses (ie about 100 ha or more per fire), provide a database of plantation area fire losses by year, by region and by species....

4 Mar 2020 - 1 Apr 2021

Victoria, Australia

Australian Forest Herbicide Research Consortium logo
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Australian Forest Herbicide Research Consortium

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

This project aims to maintain and increase the capacity of the Australian forest industry by ensuring the continued availability of effective, environmentally and socially acceptable chemical control options for weeds, pests and diseases. It will do this by coordinating the forestry specific pesticide research effort, developing and promoting industry best...

6 Apr 2018 - 30 Jun 2022

Victoria, Australia