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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
BRB
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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.
Assessment of snail exposure to the anticoagulant rodenticide brodifacoum in the Galapagos Islands
Island and Ocean Ecosystems, BRB
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Alifano, A.

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Campbell, K.J.

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Fisher, P.

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Jolley, W.

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Parent, C.E.

2019
Eradication of invasive rodents has become a powerful tool to protect native island biota. Use of brodifacoum, an anticoagulant rodenticide, has contributed to hundreds of successful invasive rodent eradication e?orts on islands. Application of bait containing brodifacoum for this purpose requires appropriate consideration of adverse e?ects on non-target wildlife. Thus, a priori identi?cation of non-target risks and, where needed, approaches to mitigate these to acceptable levels, is now an essential component of eradication planning and implementation. As part of the plan for eradicating invasive rats and mice from Floreana Island in the Galapagos, we experimentally tested the e?ect of brodifacoum on the Galapagos endemic land snail species Naesiotus unifasciatus. Importantly, the trials were designed to evaluate e?ects of particular components of the bait pellets, namely the active brodifacoum, the pyranine biomarker, and a blue dye. We found no evidence for increased snail mortality following exposure to any of these bait components. We review results of past toxicity studies on terrestrial molluscs and ?nd that, as for our own study, there is likely to be little impact of anticoagulant rodenticide on terrestrial mollusc survival as the result of application of brodifacoum bait. However, given the limited taxonomic representation in the toxicity tests performed on terrestrial molluscs so far, we recommend the continued used of captive toxicity trials to assess potential e?ect of any rodenticide applications on native malacological fauna on a case-by-case basis where large-scale eradication programmes are planned and undertaken.
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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