Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our technical session for the IUFRO Congress in Stockholm, 2024: “Improving biosecurity measures to better protect forests” Alien forest pests and pathogens continue to be spread globally through increased globalization and international trade. When established they can have devastating impacts on native, urban and commercial forests. In this session we discuss control and management tools to minimise the impacts of non native invasive pests and pathogens, as well as highlight new and emerging risks, and the threats they pose to forest ecosystems. Emerging risks include those where abiotic factors such as climate change may provide a changing environment conducive to insect and disease outbreaks. The session includes 15-minute talks and posters; submissions are now open: https://iufro2024.com/call-for-congress-abstract. Abstracts will be accepted until 2 June 2023. We look forward to receiving your submissions to this session. Kind regards, Beccy, Julio, Barbara and Hervé, session organisers. Beccy Ganley she/her/ia Ngā Rākau Taketake Leader, Biological Heritage National Science Challenge Principal Scientist – Plant & Food Research [cid:image001.png@01D95335.23210940]<https://www.plantandfood.co.nz/> [B72FD8A7] M: +64-21-2133876 T: +64-7-928-9854 E: beccy.ganley@plantandfood.co.nz<mailto:beccy.ganley@plantandfood.co.nz> www.plantandfood.co.nz<http://www.plantandfood.co.nz> The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited Postal and Physical Address: Plant & Food Research 412 No 1 Road, RD2, Te Puke 3182, New Zealand The contents of this e-mail are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disseminate, distribute or reproduce all or any part of this e-mail or attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail. Any opinion or views expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited.