Connecting Island Communities on a Global Scale: Case Studies in Island Biosecurity

Matos, Juliana; Little, Annie E.; Broome, Keith; Kennedy, Euan; Sanchez, Federico Alfonso Mendez; Latofski-Robles, Mariam; Irvine, Robyn L.; C, Gill; Espinoza, Aurora; Howald, Gregg R.; Olthof, Katrina; Ball, Morgan; Boser, Christina L.

doi:10.3398/064.078.0432

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“…This suggests that the island biosecurity practiced by PNA and enforced by CONANP, with technical assistance from GECI, is working, as well as indicating that fishermen are more aware about the implications of living with rodents, thus making it an intrinsic incentive to implement island biosecurity measures. Such behavior and rationale have been observed on other inhabited Mexican islands where invasive rodents have been eradicated [52,53,64].…”

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confidence: 54%

Involvement of a Fishing Community in the Eradication of the Introduced Cactus Mouse (Peromyscus eremicus cedrosensis) from San Benito Oeste Island, Mexico

Méndez-Sánchez

Aguirre-Muñoz²,

Samaniego‐Herrera³

et al. 2021

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San Benito Archipelago is internationally important for the conservation of 13 species of seabirds. San Benito Oeste, the largest and only inhabited island, was declared mammal-free in 2000 after a series of eradications conducted in collaboration between the fishing cooperative Pescadores Nacionales de Abulón, the Mexican conservation organization, Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas, A.C., and the Mexican Government. The archipelago remained mammal-free until 2006, when an unusual invader, the Cedros island cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus cedrosensis), was accidentally introduced to San Benito Oeste island. The same collaboration scheme involving locals, conservationists, and authorities was once again put in motion, delivering tangible results. Research informed the mouse eradication strategy, the local community supported the operation, and the mouse eradication was successfully implemented in December 2013. To date (8 years later), no mammals have been recorded in the archipelago, which suggests community-led island biosecurity is working. In addition, this collaborative restoration work contributed to the creation of the Baja California Pacific Islands Biosphere Reserve, protecting 21 islands, including the San Benito Archipelago, and 97 islets in the Mexican Pacific.

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confidence: 54%

Involvement of a Fishing Community in the Eradication of the Introduced Cactus Mouse (Peromyscus eremicus cedrosensis) from San Benito Oeste Island, Mexico

Méndez-Sánchez

Aguirre-Muñoz²,

Samaniego‐Herrera³

et al. 2021

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“…They are classically part of the techno-scientific institutions (national parks, council land management, etc). Their role in biosecurity science is largely technical (Kennedy and Broome 2019); implementing and monitoring biosecurity protocols (Buller 2008;Matos et al 2018;Weerasinghe 2020) or acting as sensors to identify new threats (Jiménez López and Mulero-Pázmány 2019). Though infrequently considered scientific experts in their own rights, their 'scientific' role is usually limited to environmental communication, engaging in new forms of public science interpretation (for example, identifying the co-benefits of parks for people and nature, and reinforcing shared understandings of environmental impacts) as a way of distributing scientific information that does not view the public understanding of science from a purely deficit approach (Remillard 2016).…”

Section: Park Rangers and The Science ⬄ Public Dichotomymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2018). In the case of conservation areas, park rangers' scientific role may involve implementing and managing biosecurity science protocols for protected areas and species (Buller 2008;Matos et al 2018;Weerasinghe 2020), often requiring specific training in the technical details (Kennedy and Broome 2019). Again, rangers are identified by the roles that they play in support of education, and public health (Wong and Higgins 2010) and through the type of knowledge that they are acknowledged to hold relative to other experts and non-experts (Lewis 1989).…”

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Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise: Science as Care in Biosecurity for Kauri Trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand

McEntee

Medvecky

MacBride-Stewart

et al. 2023

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Park rangers hold a unique set of knowledge—of science, of publics, of institutional structures, of place, and of self—that should be recognised as valuable. For too long, models of the knowledge of scientists and publics have set people like rangers in an inbetweener position, seeing them as good at communicating, translating or negotiating from one side to the other, but not as making knowledge that is powerful in its own right. In this paper we argue that focus groups with park rangers across regional and conservation parks in Aotearoa/New Zealand reveal the complexity and multiplicity of rangers’ knowledge-making that shows the science-public model as incomplete. We argue further that the model is flawed for its focus on the making and holding of knowledge and not also on how it is enacted. Rangers, we argue, are responsible every day for making knowledgeable decisions for the health and well-being of parks and people. Making good decisions, though, requires not just knowledge but also care. An understanding of the many ways rangers know and enact their knowledge is important for biosecurity practice, especially in models of adaptive governance.

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“…New Zealand’s seed industry success is dependent on its ability to import seed lots from across the globe for seed multiplication and re-export [ 15 ]. While economically beneficial to local industry, increases in the number of imported crop species, trading partners and trade volume provide more pathways for the introduction of non-native plant species, thereby raising the probability of introducing new weed species that threaten crop production and raise management costs [ 16 , 17 ]. Management of this pathway is a significant means of reducing future plant invasions [ 18 ].…”

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“…New Zealand has strict biosecurity regulations when compared to countries with similar regulatory frameworks [ 3 , 17 , 27 – 30 ]. For example, New Zealand inspects every imported seed lot and maintains an extensive list of well over a thousand quarantine species [ 22 , 29 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Weed seed contamination in imported seed lots entering New Zealand

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Imports of seeds for sowing are a major pathway for the introduction of contaminant seeds, and many agricultural weeds globally naturalised originally have entered through this pathway. Effective management of this pathway is a significant means of reducing future plant introductions and helps minimise agricultural losses. Using a national border inspection database, we examined the frequency, origin and identity of contaminant seeds within seed for sowing shipments entering New Zealand between 2014–2018. Our analysis looked at 41,610 seed lots across 1,420 crop seed species from over 90 countries. Overall, contamination was rare, occurring in 1.9% of all seed lots. Among the different crop types, the arable category had the lowest percentage of seed lots contaminated (0.5%) and the forage category had the highest (12.6%). Crop seeds Capsicum, Phaseolus and Solanum had the lowest contamination rates (0.0%). Forage crops Medicago (27.3%) and Trifolium (19.8%) had the highest contamination rates. Out of 191 genera recorded as contaminants, Chenopodium was the most common. Regulated quarantine weeds were the rarest contaminant type, only occurring in 0.06% of seed lots. Sorghum halepense was the most common quarantine species and was only found in vegetable seed lots. Vegetable crop seed lots accounted for approximately half of all quarantine species detections, Raphanus sativus being the most contaminated vegetable crop. Larger seed lots were significantly more contaminated and more likely to contain a quarantine species than smaller seed lots. These findings support International Seed Testing Association rules on maximum seed lot weights. Low contamination rates suggest industry practices are effective in minimising contaminant seeds. Considering New Zealand inspects every imported seed lot, utilises a working sample size 5 times larger than International Seed Testing Association rules require, trades crop seed with approximately half of the world’s countries and imports thousands of crop seed species, our study provides a unique overview of contaminant seeds that move throughout the seed for sowing system.

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Connecting Island Communities on a Global Scale: Case Studies in Island Biosecurity

Cited by 8 publications

References 16 publications

Involvement of a Fishing Community in the Eradication of the Introduced Cactus Mouse (Peromyscus eremicus cedrosensis) from San Benito Oeste Island, Mexico

Involvement of a Fishing Community in the Eradication of the Introduced Cactus Mouse (Peromyscus eremicus cedrosensis) from San Benito Oeste Island, Mexico

Park Rangers and Science-Public Expertise: Science as Care in Biosecurity for Kauri Trees in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Weed seed contamination in imported seed lots entering New Zealand

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