Welcome to APFISN
The Asia-Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN) has been established as a response to the immense costs and dangers posed by invasive species to the sustainable management of forests in the Asia-Pacific region. APFISN is a cooperative alliance of the 33 member countries in the Asia- Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC) - a statutory body of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The network focuses on inter-country cooperation that helps to detect, prevent, monitor, eradicate and/or control forest invasive species in the Asia-Pacific region.
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New Threats
Sirex noctilio (Sirex wood wasp)
This insect associate with a phytotoxic, wood rotting fungus Amylostereum areolatum, which female wasps inject in to the pine tree at the time of oviposition.
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Imperata cylindrica (Alang – alang)
Abandoned shifting-cultivation areas are almost always invaded; one of the most noxious colonizers of the degraded humid tropical forest soils
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