Early intervention of new and emerging weeds
Weeds can invade new areas, spreading across the landscape both naturally and assisted by human activity.
Finding new weeds early and completely removing them is the best way to stop them from becoming widespread and prevent the need for long-term management.
Our Early Intervention Handbook guides land managers through the process of:
- detecting new weeds
- deciding if eradication is suitable
- carrying out an eradication response.
To support the handbook, an Early intervention resources document and four templates can be used to assist with detecting and responding to new weeds.
- Early intervention of new and emerging weeds handbook ()
- Early intervention South Australian resources ()
- Eradication response plan template (Template 1) ()
- Search plan template (Template 2) ()
- Field recording template for weed searches (Template 3) ()
- Field recording template for weed specimens (Template 4) ()
This project was funded through the Australian Government’s Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper.
Page last reviewed: 15 Jun 2021