**February, 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/)

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 <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

Global Invasive Species Programme
http://[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://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/>

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

World Organization for Animal Health
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

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

**30-January to 3-February, 2005 -- International Symposium: Ecology and
Management of Lygus Plant Bugs** -- Ottawa, Canada -- Contact:
<MasonP@agr.gc.ca>

**31-January to 4-February, 2005 -- IPPC Guidelines on sampling of
consignments Expert Working Group Meeting** -- Brisbane, Australia --
Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**5 February, 2005, CBD Liason Meeting on Island Biodiversity** --
Bangkok, Thailand -- Contact: <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

> **7-10 February, 2005 -- Weed Science Society of America Annual
> Meeting** -- Invasive species is a major topic -- Honolulu Hawaii --
> Contact: [www.wssa.net](http://www.wssa.net/)

**7-10 February, 2005 -- 16th Conference of the OIE Regional Commission
for Africa** -- Khartoum, Sudan. Contact:
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

> **7-10 February, 2005, Annual meeting of the Weed Science Society of
> America** -- Honolulu, Hawaii -- Contact:
> <http://www.wssa.net/society/05mtngbrochure.pdf>

**7-11 February, 2005 \-- Tenth meeting of Subsidiary Body of
Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (CBD SBSTTA-10)** --
Bangkok, Thailand. Contact: <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

**7-11 February, 2005 -- Classification of commodities by phytosanitary
risk related to level of processing and intended use** -- IPPC Expert
Working Group meeting -- Buenos Aires, Argentina -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**8-9 February, 2005 -- NASA's Planetary Protection Advisory Committee
Meeting** -- Washington D.C., Contact: Kathleen Regul,
<kregul@infonetic.com>

**12 February, 2005 -- (Tentative) Joint Meeting of the Convention of
Biological Diversity and International Plant Protection Convention
Secretariats** -- Bangkok, Thailand -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**16-18 February, 2005 -- WTO-SPS Regional Workshop** -- Jamaica --
Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

> **18 February, 2005 -- Introductions of Aquatic Alien Ornamental and
> Food Species: Common Scientific and Regulatory Interests of Developing
> Countries and the USA** -- St. Paul Minnesota -- Contact:
> <http://www.was.org/meetings/ConferenceInfo.asp?MeetingCode=WA2005>
>
> **20-27 February, 2005 -- (Tentative) IPPC IPP Capacity Building
> Workshop (Pacific)** -- Sava, Fiji -- Contact:
> <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>
>
> **21-25 February, 2005 -- IPPC Phytosanitary Capacity Evaluation
> Facilitation Workshop (Central Europe)** -- Prague, Czech Republic --
> Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>
>
> **21-23 February, 2005 -- IPPC International Forest Quarantine
> Research Group 2^nd^ meeting** -- Victoria, Canada -- Contact:
> <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>
>
> **21-25 February, 2005 -- Efficient use of existing data to support
> demonstration of disease freedom** -- London, UK -- Contact:
> <http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>
>
> **22 February, 2005 -- NAFTA CEC Developing a common approach to risk
> analysis for Aquatic Invasive Species in North America Trinational
> Meeting** -- Washington DC -- Closed to the public -- Contact:
> <http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english>

**February, 2005 -- (Tentative) NEPAD Fish for All Summit**:-- Abuja,
Nigeria. Regional summit to focus to build consensus on future
investment priorities of fisheries to meet Africa's development needs.
Invasive species will be a topic of consideration. The WorldFish Center,
the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)Secretariat and FAO
will be providing additional details.

**February, 2005 -- (Tentative) NAPPO Forestry Panel Meeting** --
Vancouver, Canada -- Date not set -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**February, 2005 -- (Tentative)---Inter-American Coordinating Group in
Plant Protection Meeting** -- Location not yet determined -- Contact:
<http://www.nappo.org/>

**27 February to 4 March, 2005 -- Sixth Annual National Invasive Weeds
Awareness Week** -- Washington D.C. -- Contact:
<http://www.nawma.org/niwaw/niwaw_index.htm>

**28 February to 2 March, 2005 -- IPPC Workshop on the Practical
Application of ISPM No. 15 (Wood Packing Materials)** -- Vancouver,
Canada -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

> **28 February to 4 March, 2005 -- IPPC IPP Capacity Building
> Workshop(Africa)**---Accra, Ghana -- Contact:
> <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>
>
> **28 February to 4 March, 2005 -- Use of integrated measures in a
> systems approach for pest risk management of citrus fruit for citrus
> canker** -- IPPC Expert Working Group meeting -- Buenos Aires,
> Argentina -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>
>
> **28 February to 4 March, 2005 -- (Tentative) IPPC IPP Capacity
> Building Workshop (Central America)** -- San Jose, Costa Rica --
> Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**7-10 March, 2005 -- (Tentative) WTO-SPS Committee Meeting** -- Geneva,
Switzerland -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

> **7-11 March, 2005 -- IPPC Technical Panel on Forest Quarantine issues
> meeting** -- Victoria, Canada -- Contact:
> <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**7-11 March, 2005 -- (Tentative) Expert Group on Technical Assistance**
-- IPPC Expert Working Group meeting -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**7-13 March, 2005 -- (Tentative) IPPC Capacity Building Workshop
(Caribbean)** -- Bridgetown, Barbados -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**8-9 March, 2005, NAPPO Invasive Species Panel Meeting** \-- Raleigh,
North Carolina -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**9-10 March, 2005, NAPPO Pest Risk Analysis Panel Meeting** -- Raleigh,
North Carolina -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**10 March, 2005, NAPPO Grains Panel Meeting -- Raleigh, North
Carolina** -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**14-16 March, 2005 -- CBD Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on the review
of implementation of the Programme of Work on Forest Biodiversity** --
Montreal, Canada -- Contact: <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

**14-17 March, 2005 -- NAPPO Fruit Panel Meeting** -- Ciudad Victoria,
Mexico -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

> **14-18 March, 2005 \-- (Tentative) IPPC Post-entry quarantine
> facilities Expert Working Group meeting** -- location not determined
> -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**14-18 March, 2005 -- (Tentative) IPPC Phytosanitary Capacity
Evaluation Facilitators Workshop** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**14-19 March, 2005 -- (Tentative) IPPC Capacity Building Workshop
(Africa)** -- St. Lous, Mauntius -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**15-16 March, 2005, NAPPO Fruit Panel Meeting** -- Ciudad Victoria,
Mexico -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**15-17 March, 2005 -- (Tentative) IPPC Information Exchange Support
Group** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**16-19 March, 2005 -- 70^th^ North American Wildlife and Natural
Resources Conference Special Session 6: Stemming the Tide of Nonnative
Invasive Plants** -- Arlington, Virginia -- Contact:
<http://www.wildlifemanagementinstitute.org/pages/TOC.html>

**28-30 March, 2005 International meeting on the Design and analysis of
Diagnostic Test Evaluation Studies** -- Nairn, Inverness (Scotland) --
Animal Diseases of International Concern \-- Contact:
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

**1-April, 2005 -- IPPC Subsidiary Body on dispute Settlement -- 3^rd^
Meeting** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**Week of 4 or 11, April, 2005 -- (Tentative) NAPPO Biological Control
Panel Meeting** -- USA -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

4**-6 April, 2005, Marker Vaccines and Differential Diagnostic Tests for
Control of Transboundary Disease** -- Ames, Iowa -- Contact:
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

**4-7 April, 2005, Ninth International Plant Virus Epidemiology
Symposium "Applying Epidemiological Research to Improve Virus Disease
Management** -- Lima, Peru -- Contact:
<http://cipotato.org/training/PlantVirusEpidemSymp05/>

**4-8 April, 2005, IPPC Interim Commission for Phytosanitary Measures
7^th^ session** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**10-14 April, 2005, Integrated Control in Glasshouses and Outdoor
Nursery Stocks** -- Turku, Finland -- Contact: <Irene.Vanninen@mtt.fi>

**10-14 April, 2005, Second Joint Conference, International Working
Groups on Legume and Vegetable Viruses** -- Ft. Lauderdale, Florida --
Contact: <http://conferences.ifas.ufl.edu/vegleg/>

**11-15 April, 2005, Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
Conference** \-- Atlanta, Georgia -- Contact: <http://www.cdc.gov/eis>

**13-15 April, 2005, NAPPO Plants for Planting Panel Meeting** --
Riverdale, Maryland -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**19-20 April, 2005, NAPPO Grapevine Panel Meeting** -- Mexico City,
Mexico -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**19-20 April, 2005, Invasive Species: Their Ecological Impacts and
Alternatives for Control** -- Sponsored by the American Society for
Testing and Materials International -- Reno, Nevada -- Contact:
[http://www.astm.org](http://www.astm.org/)

**19-20 April, 2005, NAPPO TAG Grapevine Arthropod and Nematode Panels**
-- Mexico City, Mexico,\-- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**21-22 April, 2005, International Invasive Sea Squirt Conference** --
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts --
Contact: <http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/oli/activiteis/seasquirt.html>

**25-29 April, 2005 -- IPPC Standards Committee 6^th^ Meeting** -- Rome,
Italy -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**26-28 April, 2005, NAPPO Biological Control Panel Meeting** --
Riverside, California -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**2-6 May, 2005 -- Australasian Vertebrate Pest Conference** --
Wellington, New Zealand -- Australia and New Zealand meeting which
covers vertebrate pest management issues -- invasive species is a major
issue for the meeting. Contact:
[www.landcareresearch.co.nz/news/conferences/vertebratepest/](http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/news/conferences/vertebratepest/)

**5-6 May, 2005 -- International Workshop: Biological Invasions in
Inland Waters** -- Florence, Italy -- Contact:
[http://www.dbag.uniti.it](http://www.dbag.uniti.it/) (Click on Eventi).

**8-11 May, 2005, Symposium on Trophic and Guild Internations in
Biological Control** -- joint meeting of teh IOBC Neartic Regional
Section and the Biocontrol Network of Canada -- Magog, QUE, Canada --
Contact: <biocontrol-network@umontreal.ca>

**9-13 May, 2005, (Tentative) Alternatives to methyl bromide -- IPPC
Expert Working Group** -- location unconfirmed -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**9-13 May, 2005, 2^nd^ FAO/IAEA International Conference on Area-Wide
Control of Insect Pests: Integrating the Sterile Insect and Related
Nuclear and Other Techniques** -- Vienna, Austria -- *Organized by the*
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations *and the*
International Atomic Energy Agency \-- Contact:
<http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/Announcements.asp?ConfID=131>

**9-13 May, 2005, World Aquaculture 2005** -- Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia
-- Contact: <http://www.was.org/main/Default.asp>

**10 May, 2005, 57^th^ International Symposium on Crop Protection** --
Coupure Links, Gent, Belgium -- Contact: <Kris.DeJonghe@ugent.be>.

**16-20 May, 2005 \-- IPPC Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group meeting on CBD
Invasive Alien Species (gaps and inconsistencies**)---Auckland, New
Zealand -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**23-25 May, 2005 -- (Tentative) The use of integrated measures in a
systems approach for pest risk management of fruit flies** -- IPPC
Expert Working Group meeting -- Vienna, Austria -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**23-27 May, 2005 -- (Tentative) Fruit sampling guidelines** -- IPPC
Technical Panel on pest free area and systems approaches for fruit flies
-- Vienna, Austria -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

> **24-27 May, 2005, 1^st^ Brazilian Symposium on Invasive Alien
> Species** -- Brasilia, Brazil -- Contact:
> <http://institutohorus.org.br/trabalhosa_simposio_eei_eng.htm> or
> <infosimposio@institutohorus.org.br>

**25-27 May, 2005, Invasive Plants in the Mediterranean Type Regions of
the World** -- Montpellier, France \-- Co-organized by The Conservatoire
Botanique National Mediterraneen, the World Conservation Union Centre
for Mediterranean Cooperation and the Council of Europe and the European
and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization -- Contact:
<http://www.ame-lr.org/workshop>

**May, 2005, (Tentative -- date & location not set) NAPPO Fruit Tree
Panel Meeting** -- Canada -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**6-10 June, 2005, IPPC Expert Working Group on Debarking meeting** --
Oslo, Norway, Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**6-10 June, 2005, International Conference on Current Issues on the
Integrated management of Insect Pests and Disease Vectors in Africa** --
Accra, Ghana -- Contact: <http://www.icipe.org/aais/>

**9-11 June, 2005, Introduction and Spread of Invasive Species: An
International British Crop Protection Council (BCPC) Symposium --**
Berlin, Germany. Contact:
[www.bcpc.org/invasive](http://www.bcpc.org/invasive)

**12-16 June, 2005, 13^th^ International Sclerotinia Workshop** --
Monterey, California -- Contact:STKoike@ucdavis.edu.

**14-15 June, 2005, NAPPO Potato Panel Meeting** -- Colorado Springs,
Colorado -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**15-17 June, 2005 -- The Prevention and Control of Zoonoses: from
Science to Policy** -- Liverpool, UK --Contact:
[www.hpazoonosesconference.org.uk](http://www.hpazoonosesconference.org.uk/)

**20-23 June, 2005 (Tentative) WTO-SPS Committee Meeting** -- Geneva,
Switzerland -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**20-23 June, 2005, Thirteenth Symposium European Weed Research
Society** -- Bari, Italy -- Contact:
[http://www.ewrs-symposium.com](http://www.ewrs-symposium.com/)

**21-22 June, 2005 -- NAPPO Potato Panel Meeting** -- Colorado Springs,
Colorado -- 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>

**12-13 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 -- Contact:
[http://cwd-infor.org](http://cwd-infor.org/)

**16-20 July, 2005 \-- 28^th^ World Veterinary Congress**. Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA. Contact: <wvc2005@avma.org>

**18-22 July, 2005 -- Fifty-third session of the IMO Marine Environment
Protection Committee** -- London, UK, Contact:
<http://www.imo.org/index.htm>

**July, 2005 -- (Tentative) NAPPO Standards Panel Meeting** -- Ottawa,
Canada -- Contact: <http://www.nappo.org/>

**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>

> **Summer, 2005 (Tentative) APEC Workshop to Address Invasive Alien
> Species** -- Beijing**,** China \-- Contact Point: Jeff Fisher
> <fisherjp@state.gov>

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

**12-August, 2005, (tentative) Symposium on the Impact of Exotic
Invasive Plant Species on the Forest Ecosystem** -- during 22n IUFO
World Congress -- Brisbane, Australia -- Contact: <RKKohli45@yahoo.com>

**19-20 August, 2005, Symposium of Diagnosis of Bee Diseases** --
Dublin, Ireland -- Contact: <wolfgang.ritter@cvuafr.bwl.de>

**21-24 August, 2005 -- International Agricultural/Environmental
Conference** -- Hilo,Hawaii -- Contact:
<http://www.dce.ksu.edu/dce/cong/ag&environment/>

**23-26 August, 2005 -- Fourth International marine Bioinvasions
Conference** -- Wellington, New Zealand -- Contact: Marnie Campbell,
<marnie.campbell@maf.govt.nz>

**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.

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

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

**5-10 September, 2005, Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions
(EMAPI) 8^th^ annual meeting** -- Katowice, Poland. EMAPI is ran by a
steering committee currently made up of individuals from the USA, Great
Britain, Czech Republic, Germany and Italy. Contact:
http//www.empi.us.edu.pl/invite_ok.php

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

**18-22 September, 2005, 8^th^ Conference of the OIE Regional Commission
for Middle East**. Manama, Bahrain Contact:
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

**19-23 September, 2005 (Tentative) IPPC Technical Panel meeting on pest
free area and systems approaches for fruit flies** -- Coasta Rica --
Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**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>

**3-7 October, 2005 -- (Tentative) Guidelines for regulating potato
micropropagation material and minitubers in international trade** --
IPPC Expert Working Group -- location unconfirmed -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**10-14 October, 2005 -- (Tentative) IPPC Strategic Planning and
Technical Assistance 7^th^ meeting** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.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/>

**23-27 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/>

**24-26 October, 2005 (Tentative) \-- CBD Latin American and Caribbean
Regional Workshop on the Clearing-House mechanism** -- location to be
determined \-- Contact: <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

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

**24-27 October, 2005 (Tentative) -- WTO-SPS Committee Meeting** --
Geneva, Switzerland -- 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/)

**25-28 October, 2005, Sixth Symposium on Diseases in Asian
Aquaculture** -- Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Contact:
<http://www.was.org/main/Default.asp>

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

**27 September -- 1 October, 2005 Invasion of Alien Species in Holarctic
(BOROK-2**) -- Borok, Yaroslavl province, Russia -- Contact:
[www.sevin.ru/borok-2](http://www.sevin.ru/borok-2) or
[www.ibiw.ru/conferences/Borok-2](http://www.ibiw.ru/conferences/Borok-2)
(please note that I was not able to reach either of these websites on
December 28, 2004).

**7-11, November, 2005 (Tentative) IPPC Standards Committee 7^th^
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>

> **November, 2005 (Tentative) 24^th^ Conference of the OIE Regional
> Commission for Asia, the Far East and Oceania** \-- Date not set \--
> Republic of Korea. Contact: <http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

**November, 2005 (Tentative) 12^th^ International Symposium of the World
Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians** -- Date not set
\-- Montevideo, Uruguay -- Contact:
<http://www.oie.int/eng/en_index.htm>

**5-9 December, 2005 (Tentative) Eleventh meeting of Subsidiary Body of
Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (CBD SBSTTA-10),**
Montreal, Canada \-- Contact: <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

**5-9 December, 2005 (Tentative) IPPC Technical Panel meeting to develop
diagnostic protocols for specific pests** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

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

**27-31 March, 2006 (Tentative) IPPC Interim Commission for
Phytosanitary Measures 8^th^ session** -- Rome, Italy -- Contact:
<http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**24-28 April, 2006 (Tentative) IPPC Standards Committee 8^th^ Meeting**
-- Rome, Italy -- Contact: <http://www.ippc.int/IPP/En/default.htm>

**Spring, 2006, 14^th^ International Conference on Aquatic Invasive
Species** -- Florida -- Contact: <http://www.icais.org/index.html>

**8-19 May, 2006 (Tentative) -- Eighth meeting of the Conference of the
Parties to the Convention on Biolological Diversity (COP-8)**---Brazil
-- Contact: <http://www.biodiv.org/default.aspx>

> **19-25 June, 2006 (Tentative) \-- 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:
> [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/)
>
> **17-21 September, 2007, 9^th^ International Conference on the Ecology
> and Management of Alien Plant Invasions** (EMAPi9) -- Contact:
> [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- Feb, 2, 2005 \-- February,05-report.wp