It is peak season for adult wood-boring insects to be spotted outside of trees, and their impacts are most obvious in the summer. Invasive pests like the emerald ash borer, LDD moth (Lymantria dispar dispar) and hemlock woolly adelgid are serious threats to Canada s economy, environment and society.
This August, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) encourages everyone in Canada to take an active role in protecting Canada s plants by joining plant health enthusiasts from coast to coast to coast who will be participating in Tree Check Month.
It only takes a few minutes to check so please take a quick trip outside to inspect the trees in your yard or in and around your community. Start by looking at the whole tree, then focus on specific areas. Look for unusual or sudden changes in tree health, including leaf discolouration, bark cracks, insect holes and tunnels under bark that has come off. Start your inspection at the roots, move up the trunk and along the branches, looking fo
Closing ceremony of the International Year of Plant Health: Many successes despite difficult circumstances
FAO Director-General stresses plant health is key to better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life
1 July 2021, Rome - The United Nations International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) 2020 ended officially today with a virtual closing ceremony highlighting the many successes achieved - despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, which extended the Year s activities for an extra six months.
In his remarks at the ceremony, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, offered a reminder of the Year s key objectives:
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Climate Change Threats Will be Worse than COVID-19, Study Finds
Climate Change Threats Will be Worse than COVID-19, Study Finds
Climate change is currently bracing to be a far worse nightmare to humanity than COVID-19 and even malaria.
Anti-malaria groups have been warning that amid the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, malaria still remains the world’s top killer disease.
Now, climate change is likely to spark the world’s worse humanitarian emergency.
A United Nations-backed study says climate change is making pests which ravage important agricultural crops even more destructive.
The implication of the study find is that there are heightened threats to global food security and the environment.
Climate change is making pests which ravage important agricultural crops even more destructive, heightening threats to global food security and the environment, a UN-backed study published on Wednesday has found. The scientific review looks at 15 plant pests .