Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Tasmania's fruit fly-free status could be under threat, jeopardising millions of dollars worth of exports into lucrative Asian markets, a biosecurity scientist warns.
Key points:
Tasmania currently enjoys fruit fly-free status; opens up trade in key Asian markets
Increase in temperature could allow pest to establish in Tasmania
Climate change now considered factor in biosecurity risk modelling
Tasmania's fruit growers currently benefit from the state's fruit fly-free status, allowing...