Decimation of flora and fauna. Environmental impacts and effect on domestic animals and pets. Nasty sting which poses a serious threat to human health
Field Staff:
Operations manager and workstream managers
GIS Analysts
Logistics Management
Movement Control
Tracing Specialists
Surveillance Teams
Organism Management
Aerial bait applications
Screening laboratory
Action:
Initial
Within hours of nest being discovered, Field Operation Response Team (FORT) headquarters was set up on site
Movement restrictions on certain goods and vehicles imposed
Just hours after notification, nest was eradicated
Wide area surveillance, tracing and treatment initiated.
Current
Continued monitoring of the site has included annual trapping surveys (up to 250,000 bait traps in a 2km radius)
420 pitfall traps
On-going monitoring fortnightly within 200m of nest
Continued 'organism management' on site including aerial bait applications twice yearly in difficult to access areas.
The programme will continue until June 2009 providing there are no further positive trap or monitoring results.
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