Fruit fly alert

National cut front-line biosecurity staff and detection equipment at our airports and now this devestating fly has been found, alive, in New Zealand.
Nice work, National.
Was the kiwifruit virus not enough for you?
All fruit is at risk now.
All fruit.

Palm kernel pests

"PALM KERNEL imports are tracking higher than ever, despite continued biosecurity fears about the controversial dairy cow feed."

Aside from the shameful situation brought about by the purchase of palm kernel - that is the destruction of rainforest in order to make room for new, made-lucrative by-the-market (dairy farmers, especially in New Zealand), the number of organisms from ants to lizards that are arriving here amongst the palm kernel is a major fear - or should be, were it not for greed obscuring the danger.

"Lachlan McKenzie, Federated Farmers dairy spokesman said farmers wanted to lessen their dependence on palm kernel because its price fluctuated. "In the last drought, it went up to $400 a tonne."


Environmental concerns were "from within a small minority", he added."

Huge quantities of this material is arriving  in New Zealand and the amount is rapidly growing.
It's the problem that we dare not speak about because it points at Fonterra and their dairy farmers and they are sacrosanct, aren't they?