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Emerald ash borer survey and detection: the Canadian experience
It's the International Year of Plant Health and our colleague from Canada give us details on their work with emerald ash borer. A highly destructive pest of ash trees.
Jon Sweeney, Erin Bullas-Appleton, Troy Kimoto & Ron Neville • 22 Sep 2020
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Tree Health issues in Britain from the experts
Plant Health Week, in the International Year of Plant Health, provides an opportunity to reflect upon the current and potential future challenges facing Britain’s trees and what we can all do to help protect them.
Nicola Spence, Gerry Saddler & Martin Williams • 08 Sep 2020
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Observatree Network Groups
Observatree is a national network of volunteers surveying tree health and acting as an early warning systems for tree health in the UK. A key way our volunteers and staff keep in contact is through the network groups in our forum.
Charles Lane • 13 Jul 2020
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Coronavirus or Xylella: The importance of biosecurity, early detection and decisive action.
Professor Nicola Spence, DEFRA's Chief Plant Health Officer, explains why biosecurity is so important.
Professor Nicola Spence • 16 Jun 2020
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Help is at Hand - Benefits to an Observatree volunteer of buddying up with other organisations
A blog from our Lead Volunteer for Scotland, David Slawson. David talks about his experience working with Observatree associate organisation Scottish Natural Heritage.
David Slawson • 13 May 2020
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The role of citizen science in tree health in Slovenia
As part of the International Year of Plant Health, Observatree is hosting blogs from colleagues around the world who, like us, are working to slow the spread of invasive tree pests and diseases. This blog is from the Slovenian Forestry Institute who talk about their citizen science project LIFE ARTEMIS.
Simon Zidar and Dr Maarten de Groot • 08 Apr 2020
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Observatree raising awareness of tree pests and diseases in Wales
An update from our Lead Trainer, Suzy, about our stakeholder training days in Wales.
Suzanne Sancisi-Frey • 10 Mar 2020
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Observatree on the Hunt for Lace Bugs
Observatree volunteers survey the UK for invasive lace bug species every summer. Suzy talks about this project and presents the results!
Suzanne Sancisi-Frey • 04 Feb 2020
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A record-breaking 2019 and new developments for 2020
2019 was a record-breaking year for the project, with almost 4400 tree health reports submitted by our volunteers.
Peter Crow • 20 Jan 2020
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Observatree Autumn Round Up
Following on from our last blog post where we shared what we’d been up to this summer, we thought we’d share what the volunteers have all been up to this summer!
Peter Crow • 19 Nov 2019