Biosecurity
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- New Zealand must be vigilant about biosecurity to protect our primary production base from introduced pests and diseases.
- Enhance our ability to prevent unwanted exotic species from entering New Zealand and the ability to respond to any incursions that do occur
- Only permit new species of biological control after extensive consideration of indigenous and existing naturalised exotic species.
- Ensure there is a biosecurity services levy on all freight, passengers and vessels arriving in New Zealand.
- Establish a definitive policy for controlling livestock diseases such as Mycobacterium avium Paratuberculosis (MAP) in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Amend the Biosecurity Act to include, as its purpose, the need to protect New Zealand from pests, diseases, and GE organisms.
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- Ensure that BiosecurityNZ and other border protection agencies have adequate resourcing
- Increase offshore port capacity to prevent Brown Marmorated Stink Bug and similar invasive pests from entering the country
- Conduct an independent review into the Myco-Plasma Bovis response
- Ensure that the appropriate agencies are involved before and at the border as well as post-incursion
- Facilitate greater international cooperation on matters regarding the control and eradication of animal and plant diseases
- Provide the necessary funding and technology needed to combat biological and other threats at our border
- Require effective coordination between relevant government agencies to ensure appropriate deterrents exist to the poaching and trafficking of protected species
- Update instant fines and other means of providing effective deterrents against border breaches
- Establish a New Zealand Border Protection Force combining functions of the New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand Customs Service and Immigration New Zealand to coordinate the protection of our borders from pandemic and biosecurity incursions.
- Read more here.
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https://www.top.org.nz/genetics_for_good
Gene editing has the potential to solve many problems that New Zealanders struggle to solve. It could make kauri trees resistant to kauri dieback or be used to remove microplastics from water, helping to clean up our waterways and groundwater. Gene editing offers a precise, fast way of developing new plant varieties, such as plants that can cope with newly introduced pests or the effects of climate change. It could even solve our possum and rat problem, so that we can stop using 1080 poison.
Why are we holding our scientists and businesses back from a new technology that has much in common with selective breeding - especially when our competitors are already using it?
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