**July, 2005 -- Report on Upcoming**

**International Invasive Species Meetings**

Richard Orr

Assistant Director for International Policy and Prevention

National Invasive Species Council

U.S. Department of the Interior

Office of the Secretary (OS/SIO/NISC)

Physical and Fedex location: 1201 Eye St. N.W. 5th floor Room 79

Washington, DC 20005

Mailing address: 1849 C Street, NW

Washington, DC 20240

Work Phone (202) 354-1882

Fax (202) 371-1751

email address: richard_orr@ios.doi.gov

**I. SELECTED WEBSITES WITH INVASIVE SPECIES INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY
LISTINGS:**

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[http://www.aphis.usda](http://www.aphis.usda/)[.gov]{.underline}

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation <http://www.apec.org/>

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <http://www.cdc.gov/>

Commission for Economic Cooperation (NAFTA)
<http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english>

Convention on Biological Diversity
[ht]{.underline}[tp://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx](http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx)

Global Invasive Species Programme
[http://]{.underline}[www.gisp.org](http://www.gisp.org/)

International Civil Aviation Organization <http://www.icao.int/>

International Maritime Organization <http://www.imo.org/index.htm>

International Plant Protection Convention
[http]{.underline}[://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm](http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm)

National Invasive Species Council <http://www.invasivespecies.gov/>

National Plant Board (U.S.A) <http://www.aphis.usda.gov/npb/>

North American Plant Protection Organization <http://www.nappo.org/>

Pacific Region Environmental Programme <http://www.sprep.org.ws/>

The World Conservation Union <http://www.issg.org/>

Trilateral Committee for Wildlife & Ecosystem

> Conservation and Management <http://www.trilat.org/>

World Aquaculture Society <http://www.was.org/main/Default.asp>

World Organization for Animal Health
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**II. FUTURE INTERNATIONAL INVASIVE SPECIES ACTIVIES:**

**6-7 July, 2005 --- NAPPO Electronic Phytosanitary Certification Panel
Meeting --** Annapolis, MD -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**11-15 July, 2005 \-- CBD Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group meeting on
Marine and Coastal Biodiversity** -- Montreal, Canada -- Contact:
<http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

**12 July, 2005 -- Symposium: Embedding a Caribbean Invasive Species
Safeguarding Strategy within a Reginal Integration Framework** \--
Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies -- Contact: W.F. Brown
<WFBrown@ifas.ufl.edu>

**12-13 July, 2005 --- NAPPO Fruit Panel Meeting** -- Quebec City,
Canada -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**12-14, July, 2005 \-- Second International Chronic Wasting Disease
(CWD) Symposium** -- Madison, Wisconsin, USA -- Contact:
[http://www.cwd-info.org](http://www.cwd-info.org/)

**15-19, July, 2005 \-- 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Conservation Biology** -- Brazilia, Brazil - Invasive species is on the
agenda for presentations. Contact:
<http://www.scb2005.unb.br/registration.htm>

**16-20 July, 2005 \-- 28^th^ World Veterinary Congress**. Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA - Contact:
[http:/www.wvc2005@avma.org](mailto:wvc2005@avma.org)

**18-22 July, 2005 -- Fifty-third session of the IMO Marine Environment
Protection Committee** -- London, UK - Contact:
[http://www.imo.org/home.asp](http://www.imo.org/index.htm)

**18-22 July, 2005 -- Sixth International Crustacean Congress --**
Glasgow, Scotland -- Contact:
[http://www.gisp.org](http://www.gisp.org/)

**25-27 July, 2005 \-- Combating Bioterrorism: The Organizational
Response** - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Contact: Sandy Weiner <slweiner@mit.edu> Website:
<http://professional.mit.edu/ApplicationFiles/web/WebFrame.cfm?web_id=382>

**25-29 July, 2005 \-- CBD AD Hoc Technical Expert Group on the review
of implementation of the Programme of Work on Forest Biodiversity** --
Bonn, Germany -- Contact: <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

**28-29 July, 2005 -- APEC Symposium on Response to Outbreaks of Avian
Influenza and Preparedness for a Human Health Emergency --** San
Francisco, USA -- Contact:
<http://www.apec.org/webapps/events_calendar/events_calendar.php>

**1 August, 2005 \-- OIE Workshop on Development of Animal Health
Legislation (highly pathogenic avian influenza prevention and control)**
-- Asia -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**1-5 August \-- 2005 WTO-SPS Regional Workshop**, Johannesburg, South
Africa - Contact:
[http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/sps_e/sps_e.htm]{.underline}

**7-11 August, 2005 \-- U.S. National Plant Board 2005 Annual Meeting**
-- Biloxi, Mississippi, USA -- Contact: <http://www.aphis.usda.gov/npb/>

**7-12 August, 2005 Ecolocical Society of America Annual Meeting, held
jointly with IX International Congress of Ecology --** Montreal, Canada
-- Contact: [http://www.esa.org/montreal/]{.underline}

**8-12 August, 2005 -- 12^th^ International Auchenorrhyncha Congress and
6^th^ International Workshop on Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Economic
Significance --** Berkeley, CA, USA -- Contact:
<http://nature.berkeley.edu/hoppercongress/>

**10-12 August, 2005 --- Workshop on Molluscan Shellfish Safety:
Integration of Science and Policy for Vibrios and Viruses** -- Point
Clear, Alabama, USA -- Contact: <http://www.masgc.org/issc_icmss>

**15-18 August, 2005 Joint OIE/FAO APHCA WTO-SPS Workshop** -- Chiang
Mai, Thailand -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**19-20 August, 2005 \-- Symposium of Diagnosis of Bee Diseases** --
Dublin, Ireland -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/manifestations/en_manifs.htm]{.underline}

**21-24 August, 2005 \-- International Agricultural/Environmental
Conference** -- Hilo, Hawaii, USA -- Contact:
[http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/conf/ag&environment/](http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/cong/ag&environment/)

**22-25 August, 2005 \-- First International Conference on Health and
Biodiversity** - Galway, Ireland -- Contact:
[http://www.cohab2005.com](http://www.cohab2005.com/)

**22-26 August, 2005 \-- 14^th^ World Veterinary Poultry Congress** --
Istanbul, Turkey -- Contact: <http://www.wvpc2005.org/>

**22-26 August, 2005 \-- IPPC Technical Panel Meeting on Phytosanitary
Treatments** -- Stellenbosch, South Africa -- Contact:
[http]{.underline}[://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm](http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm)

**23-26 August, 2005 -- Fourth International Marine Bioinvasions
Conference** -- Wellington, New Zealand -- Contact:
<http://www.vuw.ac.nz/marineconference2005/mbic.html>

**29-31 August, 2005 -- International Conference on Biological and
Pro-Ecological Methods for Control of Diseases, Pests, and Weeds in
Orchards and Small Fruit Plantations** -- Warsaw, Poland -- Contact:
[http://www.pomocentre.insad.pl]{.underline}

**29 August to 2 September, 2005 IPPC 17^th^ Technical Consultation
among Regional Plant Protection Organizations** -- Sao Paulo. Brazil --
Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**1 September, 2005 OIE Workshop on Management of Animal Health
Information Technology in South East Asia** -- Thailand -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**1 September, 2005 OIE 4^th^ Working Group Meeting of Animal Management
and Zoning Approach for FMD Disease control in the Lower Mekong Basin**
-- Vietnam -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**1-3 September, 2005 \-- Pest and weed control in sustainable fruit
production Workshop** -- Skierniewice, Poland -- Contact:
[http://www.pomocentre.insad.pl]{.underline}

**5-8 September, 2005 \-- 5^th^ European Vertebrate Pest Management
Conference** -- Budapest, Hungary - Contact:
[http://]{.underline}[www.5evpmc.com](http://www.5evpmc.com/)

**5-12 September, 2005 \-- Ecology and Management of Alien Plant
Invasions (EMAPI) 8^th^ annual meeting** -- Katowice, Poland. EMAPI is
run by a steering committee currently made up of individuals from the
USA, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Germany and Italy. Contact:
[http://www.emapi.us.edu.pl/]{.underline}

**12-14 September \-- 2005 OIE Seminar on the Structure of National
Veterinary Services of Member Countries** -- Suzdal, Russia -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**12-16 September, 2005 \-- Second International Symposium on Biological
Control of Arthropods** -- Delemont, Switzerland -- Contact:
<http://www.cabi-bioscience.ch/ISBCA-DAVOS-2005/>

**12-16 September 2005 -- IPPC Expert Working Group Meeting on the
Guidelines for Regulating Potato Micropropagation Material and
Minitubers in International Trade** -- Scotland -- Contact:
[http]{.underline}[://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm](http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm)

> **18-22 September 2005 \-- APEC Workshop to Address Invasive Alien
> Species** -- Beijing**,** China \-- Contact Point: Jeff Fisher
> <fisherjp@state.gov>

**18-23 September, 2005 -- 4^th^ International Conference on Arthropods:
Chemical, Physiological and Environmental Aspects** -- Zakopane, Poland
-- <http://www.uni.wroc.pl/formularze/form1/page1.php>

**19-23 September, 2005 \-- IPPC Technical Panel meeting on Pest Free
Areas and Systems approaches for Fruit Flies** -- Costa Rica -- Contact:
[http]{.underline}[://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm](http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm)

**25-29 September, 2005 --- International symposium on Biological
Control of Aphids and Coccids --** Tsuruoka, Japan -- Contact:
<http://www.bf.jcu.cz/tix/strita/aphidophaga/tsurprog.html>

**26-29 September, 2005 \-- 8^th^ Conference of the OIE Regional
Commission for Middle East**. Manama, Bahrain Contact:
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

**26-29 September, 2005 -- Asian Plant Pathology Society Conference** --
Geelong, Australia -- Contact:
[www.australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au](http://www.australasianplantpathologysociety.org.au/)

**27 September -- 1 October, 2005 \-- Invasion of Alien Species in
Holarctic (BOROK-2**) -- Borok, Yaroslavl province, Russia -- Contact:
[http://www.ibiw.ru]{.underline}

**29-30 September** \-- **National Congress of Parasitology with
International Participation: Parasites and Parasitoses in Humans,
Animals, Plants and the Environment -** Brasov/Poiana Brasov, Romania --
Contact: *\
*Prof. Gh. Oteanu
[*dsvbv@rdslink.ro*](mailto:genevieve.clement@zoopole.asso.fr)

**2-7 October, 2005 \-- Seventh International Symposium on Aphids** --
Fremantle, Australia -- Contact:
[http://www.aphidsymposium.org](http://www.aphidsymposium.org/)

**3-5 October, 2005 \-- New Diagnostic Technology: Applications in
Animal Health & Biologics Controls, Applications in disease
surveillance, molecular epidemiology and quality control tests of
vaccines** -- Saint-Malo, France -- Contact:
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

**17-21 October, 2005 --- NAPPO Annual Meeting** -- Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**17 October, 2005 --- NAPPO Phytosanitary Alert System Panel Meeting**
-- Puerto Vallarta, Mexico -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**23-26 October, 2005 -- 1^st^ International Symposium on Biological
Control of Bacterial Plant Diseases --** Darmstadt, Germany -- Contact:
<http://www.bba.de/english/bbaeng.htm>

**23-27 October, 2005 --- The First international Marine Protected Areas
Congress** --

Geelong, Australia - This global conference will address the World
Commission on Protected Areas' Marine goal and primary themes, and will
progress discussion on their widespread adoption and implementation
consistent with resolutions relevant to marine protected areas arising
from the Durban World Parks Congress. Contact:
<http://www.impacongress.org/>

**23-27 October, 2005 --- Seminar on the New OIE World Animal Health
Information System** -- Tbilisi, Georgia -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**24-27 October, 2005 \-- IPPC International Plant Health Risk Analysis
Workshop** -- Niagara Falls, Canada -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**24-28 October, 2005 \-- Second International Conference on Mites in
Crops** -- Montpellier, France -- Contact:
[http://www.afpp.net](http://www.afpp.net/)

**24-28 October, 2005 \-- International Conference on Lepidopterous
Cereal Stem and COB Borers in Africa** -- Nairobi, Kenya -- Contact:
<http://www.icipe.org/iclcba/>

**26-27 October, 2005 \-- Seventh International Conference on Pests in
Agriculture** -- Montpellier, France -- Contact:
[http://www.afpp.net](http://www.afpp.net/)

**31 October to 2 November, 2005- The BCPC International Congress
2005-Crop Science and Technology --** Glasgow, UK -- Contact:
[http://www.bcpc.org](http://www.bcpc.org/)

**31 October to 4 November, 2005 \-- IPPC Standards Committee Working
Group meeting -** Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**1 November, 2005 \-- OIE Workshop on BSE status in the Middle East,
Control and Measures** -- Beirut, Lebanon -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**1 November, 2005 \-- OIE/FAO-APHCA Workshop on BSE Diagnosis and
Surveillance** -- Japan -- Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**7-8 November, 2005 \-- The Biology of Vibrios: Biodiversity, Genomics,
Disease/Epidemiology, Ecology, and Applications (Aquacuture)** \-- Ghent
University, (Belgium) Contact: Peter Dawyndt, <Peter.Dawyndt@UGent.be>;
website:
[http://www.enaca.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=504]{.underline}

**7-11 November, 2005 \-- IPPC Standards Committee meeting --** Rome,
Italy -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**7-11, November, 2005 \-- 20^th^ Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society
Conference** -- Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam -- Contact:
<DuongVanChin@hcm.vnn.vn>

**9-12 November, 2005 -- First DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference:
Integrating biodiversity science for human well-being -- Oaxaca, Mexico
--** Contact: [http://www.diversitas-osc1.org/]{.underline}

**15-18 November, 2005 \-- 24^th^ Conference of the OIE Regional
Commission for Asia, the Far East and Oceania** -- Seoul, Korea --
Contact:
[http://www.oie.int/eng/en_inde]{.underline}[x.htm](http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm)

**26-29 November, 2005 -- 3^rd^ International Conference on IPM Role in
Integrated Crop Management and Impacts on Environment and Agricultural
Products --** Giza, Egypt -- Contact:
<http://www.arabscientist.org/dl/anouncement.pdf>

**28 November to 2 December, 2005 \-- CBD Eleventh meeting of the
Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice** --
Montreal, Canada -- Contact: <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

**5-9 December, 2005 \-- IPPC Technical Panel to develop diagnostic
protocols for specific pests** -- Penang, Malaysia -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**8-12 January, 2006 \-- Ecological Society of American's international
conference on "Ecology in an Era of Globalization: Challenges and
Opportunities for Environmental Scientists in the Americas"**. Merida,
Yucatan, Mexico. Three sub-themes of which invasive species is one.
Contact: <http://www.esa.org/mexico>

**22-26 January 2006 \-- Congress of the World Equine Veterinary
Association -** Marrakech, Morocco -- Contact:
[http://www.weva2006.ma](http://www.weva2006.ma/)

**30 January to 2 February, 2006 -- Biodiversity of Insects: Challenging
Issues in Management and Conservation --** Coimbatore, India -- Contact:
[http://www.b-u.ac.in](http://www.b-u.ac.in/)

**13-16 February, 2006 \-- World Aquaculture Society, Aquaculture
America '06** -- Las Vegas, Nevada -- Contact:
<http://www.was.org/main/Default.asp>

**25-30 March, 2006 \-- International Veterinary Vaccine and Diagnostic
Conference** -- Oslo, Norway -- Contact:
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

> **3-7 April, 2006 \-- IPPC Interim Commission for Phytosanitary
> Measures -- 8^th^ session** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
> [http]{.underline}[://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm](http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm)
>
> **8-12 May, 2006 \-- IPPC Standards Committee Meeting** -- Rome, Italy
> -- Contact:
> [http]{.underline}[://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm](http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm)
>
> **14-19, 2006 -- 14^th^ Inernational conference on Aquatic Invasive
> Species** -- Key Biscayne, Florida -- Contact:
> [www.icais.org](http://www.icais.org/)
>
> **19-25 June, 2006 \-- Latin American Botanical Congress** (Invasive
> Species will be a major focus), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
> Contact: Brian Boom, The New York Botanical Garden E-mail
> <bboom@nybg.org>
>
> **30 July to 5 August, 2006 --- XV International Congress of the
> International Union for the Study of Social Insects** -- Sections of
> invasive social insects eg. ants, wasps etc. - Washington DC --
> Contact:
> [http://]{.underline}[www.iussi.org/IUSSI2006.html](http://www.iussi.org/IUSSI2006.html)
>
> **10-15 September, 2006 \-- Seventh International Symposium on Fruit
> Flies of Economic Importance and 6^th^ meeting of the Working Group on
> Fruit Flies on the Western Hemisphere** -- Salvador, Brazil --
> Contact: [http://www.fruitfly.com.br](http://www.fruitfly.com.br/)
>
> **28-29 September, 2006 \-- 4^th^ International Conference on
> Biological Invasions: NEOBIOTA from Ecology to Conservation** --
> Vienna, Austria -- Contact: Wolfgang Rabitsch, Franz Essl
> <wolfgang.rabitsch@umweltbundesamt.at> ,
> <franz.essl@umweltbundesamt.at>
>
> **13-17 November, 2006 \-- IPPC Standards Committee Working Group
> meeting** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
> [http]{.underline}[://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm](http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm)
>
> **20-24 November, 2006 \-- IPPC Standards Committee Meeting** -- Rome,
> Italy -- Contact:
>
> [http]{.underline}[://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm](http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm)
>
> **17-21 September, 2007 \-- 9^th^ International Conference on the
> Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions** (EMAPi9) -- Perth,
> Australia -- Contact:
> [http://]{.underline}[www.congresswest.com.au/emapi9/](http://www.congresswest.com.au/emapi9/)
>
> **15-18 October, 2007, Sixteenth International Plant Protection
> Congress** -- Glasgow, UK -- Contact:
> [http://www.bcpc.org](http://www.bcpc.org/)
>
> rorr-June 27, 2005 \-- July,05-report