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INFORMATION
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Plant Protection Services (PPS) disseminates
information through its Pacific PestInfo e-mail newsletter, its
Pest Advisory Leaflets, and its PestAlert bulletins. It also assists with the
identification of pests and diseases through its Diagnostic Service, and
responds to requests for pest-related information.
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The
Pacific Pest List Database (PLD)
is an information system to record pest occurrences within a country and to
provide various reports of those pest occurrences especially to facilitate
trade through adherence to quarantine regulations. For more information click
here.
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Important
Pests and Weeds of the Region is a set of tables taken from Waterhouse,
Douglas Frew and Norris, Kenneth Richard, Biological Control: Pacific
Prospects . Melbourne, Victoria: Inkata Press, 1987.
BioNET-PACINET
BioNET-INTERNATIONAL, The Global Network
for Taxonomy, is a world-wide network of people and institutions dedicated to
pooling, sharing and enhancing the world's taxonomic resources to enable
developing countries to:
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become
realistically self-reliant in taxonomy; this means a local capability to
identify, name and understand the roles and relationships of the organisms which
constitute biodiversity
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achieve
sustainable agricultural development
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enhance
the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources
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achieve
full implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The Global Network is thus a facilitating mechanism for sustainable
development.
The Global Network is comprised of sub-regional networks or LOOPs (Locally
Organised and Operated Partnerships). Within a LOOP there is a sharing of
resources to provide better taxonomic services for the benefit of member
countries. Shared resources may include taxonomic information, expertise,
collections, equipment, techniques and technologies of individual member
countries. Inter-LOOP collaboration and interaction is also encouraged.
These LOOPs are owned, managed and sustained by their member country
governments. LOOPs already exist in the Caribbean, East, West and southern
Africa, and Southeast Asia. Others are under development in the South Pacific,
South Asia, East Asia, and the Andean sub-region of Latin America. PACINET is
the Pacific loop of BioNET and is managed by SPREP with support from SPC PPS in
the area of agricultural plant protection. PACINET was developed to provide
an effective means of identifying pests, transferring technology and
knowledge and training experts in the region.
The existing taxonomic capacity of LOOPs is enhanced by support from the expert
centres of the developed world to these developing country networks. Such
support takes the form of transferring taxonomic information, knowledge,
expertise and skills through training and sharing new techniques and
technologies including electronic and automated systems for the identification
of organisms. Donor/investor partnerships are needed for this, especially within
Europe, which is the single richest resource of taxonomic knowledge and
expertise.
Bionet International produces the BioNET-INTERNATIONAL
Monthly Bulletin , which started in
August 2000. Click on the title to find the full text of recent bulletins.
PACINET
PACINET is the Pacific loop of BioNET and serves the needs of SPC member
countries. It was developed to provide an effective means of identifying
pests, transferring technology and knowledge and training experts in the
region.
It also aims to increase regional and world knowledge of the biodiversity
in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs). PACINET
provides information in printed form, CD-ROMS and through
e-mail links.
BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
PICT's need to move away from the use of chemical pesticides to manage
pests in order to develop their agricultural export market. Most pests in Pacific Islands have been introduced. When they do not have
natural enemies in their new environment, they can multiply very quickly
and cause serious damage to local crops. Using natural enemies saves
beneficial insects which would have been killed with the pest through
broad spectrum spraying. SPC can assist countries with the introduction of
biological control agents.
DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES
When SPC member countries want a pest or disease identified, they place a
request with PPS.
Diagnostic services offered by PPS are very important for countries that do
not have the means available to identify pests
or diseases themselves.
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The different PPS projects produce publications that describe their work
in more detail.
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