Objectives

The main objectives of this symposium are to invite specialists from the world to share information on the current status, monitoring techniques, control strategies, and management of forest invasive pests so as to form basis to develop more efficient and effective techniques to monitor and control forest invasive pests (especially to palm trees) and explore opportunities to international collaboration on monitoring and controlling forest invasive pests to help build up the overall country capacity to identify harmful invasive insects impacting the sustainability of forests in the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific Region.

The major objectives of the training course are to introduce participants to major emerging forest pest identification; understand the ecology, damage and classification of pests; find and diagnose pests in the field; use identification keys, build a reference collection, and interact with the global community of researchers.

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