Dear IPRRG members, All of us have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools, offices, restaurants and public spaces are closed in many countries, and large social gatherings have been discouraged, if not banned. There are restrictions on both international and domestic travel. In some parts of the world, residents have been ordered to stay […]
Hello Everyone, We’re excited about our first meeting in Africa! With support from the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) and CABI, the 2020 IPRRG annual meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya 7-10 September. The venue will be the KEPHIS Conference Centre in Nairobi. We have already begun our planning efforts, and would like […]
Hello Everyone, As most of you already know, 2020 is the International Year of Plant Health. A key IYPH event will be the first International Plant Health Conference, hosted by the government of Finland and convened in Helsinki 5-8 October 2020. The overall conference theme is “Protecting plant health in a changing world”. The following […]
The BBC recently posted an interesting article on the clever glass box that “reshaped the world”. The Wardian box was developed by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, a doctor from London’s East End in the 1830’s. It allowed plants to be transported live across the seas. Previously, 90% of plants transported by ship died. Using the Wardian […]
The Annals of the Entomological Society of America has just published a special collection of papers on geospatial analysis of invasive insects. This collection is of relevance to IPRRG, with more than half of the papers featuring IPRRG members! The special issue, published by Oxford University Press can be found here. N.B. these papers are […]