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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  • 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

  • WA-Wild-Dog-Action-Plan-2016

    Western Australian Wild Dog Action Plan 2016-2021

    10 November 2016

    In 2016 an industry-led Wild Dog Action Plan (WDAP) was released, which identified the key issues for managing wild dogs across Western Australia.

  • 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.

  • Close up photo of a fox with its mouth slightly open,

    Transforming Regional Biosecurity Response stakeholder forums

    17 May 2017

    The Transforming Regional Biosecurity Response forums held in October 2016 brought together community, industry and government to develop a collaborative approach to 

  • Male (left) and female house sparrows.

    Sparrows

    15 January 2014

    Biosecurity alert: 

  • Feral pigs standing as a group in bush

    Western Australian Feral Pig Strategy 2020-2025

    5 November 2019

    The Western Australian Feral Pig Strategy 2020-2025 has been developed by the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), in conjunction with stakeholders, to provide guidanc

  • Picture of a European starling

    High priority animal species

    16 September 2015

    High priority invasive species are defined in the Department of Agriculture and Food's Invasive Species Plan for Western Australia as high risk species that can establish widely and cause undesirab

  • 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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    Indian ringneck parakeet: animal pest alert

    28 November 2013

    Indian ringneck parakeets are declared pests with the potential to damage cereals, oilseeds, horticulture as well as stored grains, and even backyard fruit and trees.

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