Drs Robert Mensah and Lewis Wilson were invited by on the Organising Committee of the

International Congress of Entomology Conference to organise a symposium on the

Invasive species and in particular weeds are considered one of the major threats to the sustainable management of natural resources.

The National Land & Water Resources Audit and its partners have produced the first national assessment of significant invasive animals in Australia since the Landscape Health in Australia Assessment of 2001.