Unit V High Profile IAS and Partnership Development Strategies

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- Unit V -High Profile IAS and Partnership
Development Strategies
Randy G. WestbrooksRebecca M. WestbrooksSteven
Manning
Global Invasive Species ProgrammeCape Town,
South Africa
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Units 5 Objectives

• Develop a basic knowledge of some of the worst
  invasive species in the world.
• Develop a basic knowledge of some of the worst
  invasive species in east Africa.
• Gain an understanding of effective port
  inspection methods and procedures.
• Gain an understanding of partnership development
  strategies for building regional IAS capacity.

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Units 5 Session Outline and Agenda

• 0900-1230. Unit 5. Overview of Major IAS and
  Partnership Development Strategies for East
  Africa.
• 0900-0920. Session 1. Overview of Invasive
  Plants, Insects and Diseases. Aquatic Nuisance
  Species and Injurious Wildlife. (R. Westbrooks)
• 0920-0940. Session 2. IPM for IAS (S. Manning).
• 0940-1000. Public Awareness and Partnership
  Development (S. Manning).
• 1000-1030. Tea.
• 1030-1100. Session 3. IAS Partnership Development
  Exercise.
• Group 1 Ethiopia, Kenya
• Group 2 Uganda Tanzania-Mainland,
  Tanzania-Zanzibar
• Group 3 Mozambique, Swaziland
• Group 4 Malawi, Zambia
• 1100-1230. Group Reports
• 1230-1315. Lunch.
• 1330-1800. Port Inspection, IAS Specimen
  Collection, ID, Preservation (R. Westbrooks, B.
  Westbrooks, S. Manning)
• Field Trip Dar es Salaam Port of Entry
  Inspection.
• IAS Specimen Collection, Identification,
  Preservation
• Port Identification Reference Collection

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Session 1. Invasive Species Overview.Brazilian
Pepper (Schinus terebenthifolius).

• Origin South America
• Introduction S. FL, Early 1900s, Ornamental
  Shrub.
• Threat Forms Monospecific Stands 300,000 ha
  infested.

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Caulerpa taxifolia
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Cogongrass Imperata cylindrica

• Origin Africa Thatch for building huts and
  roofs.
• Introduction Pasture Grass
• Threat Creates heavy fuel load that leads to
  intense wildfires in the Gulf Coast Region of the
  USA

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Floating Water Hyacinth
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Purple Loosestrife(Lythrum salicaria)
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Asian Tiger Mosquito (Ades albopictus)

• Dengue Fever
• Eastern Equine Encephalitis
• Dog Heartworm
• St. Louis Encephalitis Virus
• LaCrosse Encephalitis Viruses

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Other IAS Covered in Text

• Catclaw Mimosa (Mimosa pigra)
• Congress Weed (Chromolaena)
• Lantana camara
• Miconia calvescens
• Monterey Pine
• Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia spp.)
• Wattle (Acacia spp.)
• Banana Bunchy Top Virus Giant
• Rinderpest, Cattle Plague
• Khapra Beetle
• Argentine Ant

• Zebra Mussel
• European Green Crab
• American Comb Jelly Fish
• Opossum, Shrimp
• Walking Catfish
• Brown Tree Snake
• Cane Toad (Bufo marinus)
• Coqui Frog
• Bulbul (Bird Pakistan to China
• House Cat
• House Mouse
• Nutria
• Feral Pig

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Other IAS in East Africa

• Bamboo
• Canna Lily
• Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) Jatropha
• Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum)
• Mexican Poppy
• Moringa
• Oxalis (Oxalis spp.)
• Pines (Monterey Pine)
• Mesquite (Prosopis spp.)
• Sedges (Purple Nutsedge, Yellow Nutsedge)

• Banana Bacterial Wilt
• Banana Weevil Borer
• Great Grain Borer
• Cypress Aphid
• Chillo parthellus
• Cereal Stem Borer
• Indian House Crow
• Human Beings

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Session 2.IPM, Partnerships, and Pubic Awareness.

• Steven Manning, President of Invasive Plant
  Control, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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Session 3. IAS Partnership Development Exercise.

• 1030-1100. Session 3. IAS Partnership Development
  Exercise. Group Discussions.
• Group 1 Uganda, Ethiopia
• Group 2 Kenya, Tanzania-Mainland,
  Tanzania-Zanzibar
• Group 3 Mozambique, Swaziland
• Group 4 Malawi, Zambia
• 1100-1230. Group Reports

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East Africa Invasive Alien Species Partnership
Development Exercise.
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Port of Entry Inspection Dar es Salaam
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