Biosecurity & quarantine

The Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia (DAFWA) works with primary industries to safeguard our agricultural resources from biological threats and to maintain our export opportunities.

The State’s reputation is underpinned by a comprehensive biosecurity and quarantine system, developed and operated by DAFWA.

DAFWA is involved with:

  • creation of surveillance and diagnostic programs
  • animal and plant risk assessments
  • importing and exporting requirements
  • creating mechanisms to respond to incursions
  • livestock movement and identification
  • development and maintenance of biosecurity and quarantine legislation.

To find out more about what we do to protect agricultural production and export opportunities within the State please search our website.

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Articles

  • State Barrier Fence with the installation of lap wire which has upgraded the fence to wild dog standard

    State Barrier Fence overview

    16 January 2014

    The Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007 (BAM Act) provides the authority for regulations to be made for the erection and maintenance of barrier fences as a means of controlling

  • Injecting meat baits with 1080 poison

    1080 landholder information

    13 December 2013

    This article contains the booklet '1080 landholder information' and provides a general summary of a landholder’s obligations under the code of practice for the saf

  • Wild dog in the bush

    The use of 1080 in wild dog control

    24 March 2014

    Most bait products registered for use on wild dogs in Western Australia use sodium fluoroacetate (1080) as their active ingredient. Landholders have certain obligations under the code of practice f

  • DAFWA staf installing lapwire onto the bottom of the existing State Barrier Fence by pulling a roller with lapwire attached

    State Barrier Fence R4R projects

    11 December 2013

    Big improvements in wild dog management and agricultural pest animal control resulted from funding through the WA Government's Royalties for Regions program.

  • Wild dog targeted for baiting.

    The use of strychnine in wild dog control

    26 March 2014

    Strychnine is a highly poisonous substance that can only be used for control of pest emus and wild dogs.

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    Boosting Biosecurity Defences: Royalties for Regions

    16 October 2014

    The Boosting Biosecurity Defences program is a collection of projects and activities that aim to increase Western Australia's capability to prepare for and respond to biosecurity issues affecting W

  • Fox and ejector with superimposed diagram

    Canid Pest Ejectors

    17 August 2016

    Canid Pest Ejectors (CPEs) are a newly approved method of deploying 1080 to wild canids (foxes and wild dogs) in Western Australia. 

  • A sample image of a drone used to survey cacti

    Using innovative technologies to identify and map invasive cacti in the southern rangelands of Western Australia

    17 June 2015

    Using innovative technologies to identify and map invasive cacti in the southern rangelands of Western Australia (WA) research project was one of ten successful applications to receive funding from

  • A flock of common starlings in flight.

    Pest bird control: bait/toxin products

    25 March 2014

    This web page is part of the Bait and poison directory for vertebrate pests in Western Australia.

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