Subject Keywords: remedy restoration ecosystems

Subject Keywords: Forest solutions Ecosystem services Carbon calculation

Subject Keywords: Pesticides Chemicals

Regions: Australia and New Zealand, Oceania

Countries: Australia

Alternative Strategy: On suitable sites - windrow harvest slash to enable planting access to avoid burning and minimise germination of acacia and other woody weeds

Alternative Method: Reduction

Alternative Trial: No

Alternative Type: Specific strategy

Pest Type: Weed

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Subject Keywords: Pesticides Chemicals

Regions: Australia and New Zealand, Oceania

Countries: Australia

Alternative Strategy: Biological Control - A suite of specific predatory insects, Rhyssa, Megarhyssa and Ibalia

Alternative Method: Removal

Alternative Trial: No

Alternative Type: Specific strategy - Biocontrol

Pest Type: Insect

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Subject Keywords: EUDR Legislation Supply Chain

Subject Keywords: fsc Forest resilient forests

Subject Keywords: Deforestation Degradation Supply chain traceability

Subject Keywords: EUTaxonomy SustainableFinance ClimateChange

Subject Keywords: collaboration sustainability CSR

Subject Keywords: Membership engagement Members Chamber balance

Subject Keywords: Pesticides Chemicals

Regions: Europe

Alternative Strategy: Entomopathogenic nematodes are being applied to tree stumps on coniferous clearfell sites in Europe for inundative biological control of the large pine weevil (Hylobius abietis; Coleoptera: Curculionidae), a major forestry pest. We investigated the risk that two nematode species, Steinernema carpocapsae and Heterorhabditis downesi (Nematoda: Rhabditidae), present to longhorn beetle Rhagium bifasciatum (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), a service-providing, non-target saproxylic insect on clearfell sites. On six clearfell sites sampled one to twelve months after S. carpocapsae had been inundatively applied to tree stumps for suppression of pine weevil, <10% of deadwood logs contained infected R. bifasciatum and <4% of 1989 R. bifasciatum individuals in logs were infected. Infection was recorded a year after nematodes had been applied, however, suggesting that nematodes were recycling within logs in the field. Incidence of R. bifasciatum infection decreased significantly with increasing distance between a log and the nearest treated tree stump. Thus, our results indicate that entomopathogenic nematodes can infect and recycle in R. bifasciatum, but that the risk to this and other saproxylic non-target insects is limited by the targeted application of nematodes to tree stumps.

Alternative Method: Replacement

Alternative Trial: No

Alternative Type: Specific strategy - Biocontrol

Pest Type: Insect

Subject Keywords: Pesticides Chemicals

Regions: Australia and New Zealand, Oceania

Countries: Australia

Alternative Strategy: Control is based upon the weeds present and the weeds likely to be present, environmental or operational restrictions, soil type and characteristics (fine sand 1st rotation sites tend to blow away with broadcast spraying resulting in top soil erosion and sand blasting of seedlings), topography, site preparation method (spot cultivation, mounding, line marking only), preferred application method (aerial or ground based) and for second year weed control sites the growth already achieved since planting. Under advice from the research section, where practical, expensive and high application rate are used low rate, lower risk and lower cost products can be substituted.

Alternative Method: Reduction

Alternative Trial: No

Alternative Type: Good management practice

Pest Type: Weed

Subject Keywords: Pesticides Chemicals

Regions: Australia and New Zealand, Oceania

Countries: New Zealand

Alternative Strategy: GPS Linked Flow Metering. In conjunction with aerial applicators Timberlands Limited are trialling flow metering linked to GPS. If successful this will allow application rates to vary depending on the known plant pest infestation. Therefore rather than applying a rate to control the worst infested areas across the entire site, lower rates can be applied to areas of lower infestation. This will lead to less active ingredient being applied to the site.

Alternative Method: Reduction

Alternative Trial: Yes

Alternative Type: Good management practice

Pest Type: Weed

Subject Keywords: Pesticides Chemicals

Regions: Australia and New Zealand, Oceania

Countries: New Zealand

Alternative Strategy: Application Rate Reduction. Timberlands Limited have trialled different rates on the many weed species and infestation levels. This has allowed Timberlands Limited to best select the herbicide and rates for the control required. In most cases this has lead to an active ingredient rate being applied lower than recommended by the pesticide manufacturer and label detail. It should be noted that the rate of Terbuthylazine has reduced from around 20l/ha to between 12 and 15 l/ha over the past 15 years. These trials are continuing in conjunction with the flow metering and Callisto trials.

Alternative Method: Reduction

Alternative Trial: Yes

Alternative Type: Good management practice

Pest Type: Weed

Subject Keywords: GIS Remote Sensing COVID-19