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A Shared Approach for Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts
Environmental Monitoring and Governance
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2022
The Environmental and Social Safeguards working groups (ESSWG) was formed to provide a platform for PRIF partner safeguard experts to share knowledge and best practice, and work collaboratively to build capacity for improved of safeguard implementation.
Newly released IPCC Report confirms grave risks in a warning world
Climate Change Resilience
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2021
Our future got much bleaker with the release of the first report in the sixth series from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) on 9 August. Released just days before the World Youth Day, the report does not bode well for our future generations, reinforcing the same key messages from earlier IPCC annual reports. Urges changes must be made to limit global warming to the Paris agreements 1.5 degree Celsius temperature limit while there is still time
Invasive Insects: Risks and Pathways Project
BRB
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McGeoch, M. A.

2020
Australia can’t afford to allow in any more insect colonists like red imported fire ants, electric ants, browsing ants, yellow crazy ants, Argentine ants, African big-headed ants, Asian honeybees, large earth bumblebees and German wasps. These invaders are costing both the Australian environment and economy dearly. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on Australia-wide eradications of red fire ants, electric ants and browsing ants because of their potential for devastating harm to wildlife and impacts on people. The others have spread too far to remove, so are here in perpetuity as a threat to biodiversity, human amenity and the economy, and a burden for future generations to manage. Given the difficulties and costliness of eradicating or controlling invasive insects, one over-riding priority for Australian biosecurity must be to prevent more harmful species arriving and establishing. To do this, biosecurity authorities need to know which insects overseas (an estimated 4–6 million species) represent the greatest invasive risks for our country and how they are likely to arrive here. Biosecurity authorities already know which insects are the prevention priorities for agriculture, but there is no such list covering insects that could harm the Australian environment.
Invasive species removals and scale – contrasting island and mainland experience
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Adriaens, T.

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Booy, O.

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Mill, A.

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Robertson, P.

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Roy, S.

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Shirley, M.

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Tatayah, V.

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Ward, A.

2019
Recent years have seen large increases in the number and size of successful invasive species eradications from islands. There is also a long history of large scale removals on larger land-masses. These programmes for mammals and terrestrial plants follow the same cost-area relationship although spanning 10 orders of magnitude in scale. Eradication can be readily defined in island situations but can be more complex on larger land-masses where uncertainties defining the extent of a population, multiple population centres on the same land-mass and ongoing risks of immigration are commonplace. The term ‘complete removal’ is proposed to describe removal from an area with ongoing eff ort to maintain the area as clear, as features in many larger scale mainland programmes. Examples of complete removal to a boundary, in patches and in habitat islands are discussed. While island eradications continue to grow in scale, new legislation such as the lists of Species of European Union Concern will also drive increasing management on larger land-masses. However, these lists include large numbers of species that are already widespread. Methods are needed to prioritise species to reflect both the risks posed and the feasibility of management, including the effects of scale on cost and effectiveness.
Large scale eradication of non-native invasive American mink (Neovison vison) from Outer Hebrides of Scotland
Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Maclennan, D.

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Macleod, I.A.

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Raynor, R.

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Thompson, D.B.A.

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Whitaker, S.

2019
The Hebridean Mink Project was tasked with eradicating American mink (Neovison vison) from the Outer Hebrides, an extensive, complex island archipelago, amounting to 3,050 km2. Hundreds of islands contribute to a coastline of approximately 2,500 km, 15% of Scotland’s total. The geographical complexity continues inland with over 7,500 freshwater lochs, ~24% of Scotland’s total, which enables invasive American mink, in suitable habitats, to reach densities seldom encountered elsewhere. With major funding from the EU LIFE programme, removal from the Uists began in 2001. By 2006 eradication was declared there, as no captures had occurred for 16 months. In 2007 the project extended into Harris and Lewis, adopting a systematic network of live capture traps (7,039 spaced at 450–500 m intervals utilising prominent features of the riparian network and coastline). The traps were checked in rotation until at least a 95% reduction in population had been achieved. An incremental, strategic change from systematic trapping to detection; by means of footprint monitoring, cameras and dog searching, followed by responsive trapping then occurred from 2011 onwards. By 2013 a lethal monitoring system utilising ‘kill traps’ was employed alongside remote alert systems which allowed the project to remove the remaining population of mink from Lewis and Harris, with a reduced sta? resource, and increase the trap night total to in excess of 500,000. To date, 2,198 mink have been caught, but only two non-breeding females and associated males have been caught in Lewis and Harris in the last 18 months (no juveniles captured). The challenges of geographical scale, terrain, climatic conditions and a continuously reducing sta? complement have required an adaptive management approach to achieve the project goal of a mink-free Outer Hebrides that bene?ts ground nesting birds and migratory ?sheries. This is viewed as a highly e?ective eradication project, and lessons learnt can be put into place for other ambitious control programmes.
The coral triangle and climate change: ecosystems, people and societies at risk: a comprehensive study involving over 20 experts and based on 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles
Climate Change Resilience, Island and Ocean Ecosystems
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Hoegh-Guldberg ... [et al.]

2009
This study brought together the experience, viewpoints and analysis of over 20 experts from the climate, biological, economic, policy and social sciences. The major focus of the study was to examine how the future might unfold for one of the most ecologically rich yet most populated regions of the planet. In doing so, this report has developed a series of policy recommendations which must be taken on board if we are to avoid a major environmental and human catastrophe. If we don’t do this, hundreds of thousands of unique species, entire communities and societies will be in jeopardy.

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