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Western Australian and South Africa weed researchers and regulators have pledged to work more closely together to prevent and control invasive alien species. Agriculture Western Australia representatives met with the Brian van Wilgen from South Africa's Working for Water Program this week to develop a framework for future collaboration. Australia has many weeds that have originated from South Africa and vice versa, while the two countries also share problems with other weeds from foreign countries. Agriculture Western Australia Agriculture Protection Executive Director Rob Delane said the discussions this week focused on greater collaboration on quarantine, awareness, detection, regulations and biological research to control weeds. Mr Delane said the two countries could learn a lot from each other.