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Pests, pathogens and pandemics: Australia’s biosecurity needs an overhaul, CSIRO warns – The Guardian
Covid-19 crisis offers ‘unique opportunity to make transformational changes’
Australias biosecurity needs a major overhaul within a decade to protect people, environments and industries from a wave of invasive pests, pathogens and future pandemics, a CSIRO report has found.
Interceptions of materials that were a biosecurity risk such as insects, soils and plants rose by 50% between 2012 and 2017, the report says, and new invasive weeds are establishing themselves every few weeks.
The report calls for greater cooperation across all levels of society and makes 20 recommendations…
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