For effective management of outbreaks of quarantine organisms, rapid detection is needed, followed by rapid and effective action to eradicate the pest or stop its spread. Eradication actions in forests most often involve cutting trees and suitable destruction or special handling of infected or attacked material. The scope of needed work can be extremely extensive and can take place on an inaccessible terrain or in protected areas. Therefore, it is essential that pest management action plans are prepared at country level in advance. These should be tested in simulation exercises and carried out by suitably qualified personnel. For an effective response, a pre-prepared database of relevant forestry entrepreneurs with lists of equipment and assets are necessary. In our presentation, starting points in the development of organizational and technical support for effective actions against the outbreaks of quarantine organisms in Slovenian forests will be introduced. Also, critical points that have been identified by different stakeholders will be presented.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 5484966The project was presented to professional forestry public (ZGS, GIS, representatives of the Forestry Department of the Biotechnical Faculty, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, the Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia for Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting and Fisheries and representatives of the Slovenian State Forests Company; 84 participants) at the 10th seminar and workshop of forest protection (Škofja Loka, 6 June 2019). the focus of the presentation was on presenting legislative changes in the field of plant health and what it means in practice.
F.34 Consultancy
COBISS.SI-ID: 5404070Forest protection was for the first time presented as an independent section "Forest Tree Protection" at the 14th Slovenian Conference on Plant Protection with International Participation (March 2019, Maribor). The participants of the section were researchers and experts of the Slovenian Forestry Institute, the Biotechnical Faculty, the Slovenia Forest Service, the National Institute of Biology and the Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb. In the discussion we identified the key challenges and good practices in the field of forest health and protection, which are presented in this paper.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 5370534