Alerts and Emerging Issues Resources

Additional resources for other Web sites that provide alerts and emerging issues advisories, organized by type of organization.

• Federal Government
• State Government
• University/Academic
• International
• Organizations

Federal Government

Emerging Animal Health Issues
USDA. APHIS. Veterinary Services. Centers for Epidemiology and Animal Health.

Integrated Pest Management - Regional and National Pest Alerts
USDA. National Institute of Food and Agriculture (formerly known as the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service).

Forest and Tree Health Publications: Pest Alerts
USDA. FS. Northeastern Area.

National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS) Pest Tracker
USDA. APHIS. Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey.

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species ( NAS) Alert System
DOI. USGS. Nonindigenous Aquatic Species.
The USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program has launched an alert system that allows users to register to receive e-mails of new aquatic introductions in the United States. Users can sign up for "State Watches", "Group Watches" and/or "Species Watches". Detailed explanations of each of these can be found on the registration page. The system also allows users who are not registered to review and query archives of alerts that are sent.

State Government

Pest Alerts
Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services. Division of Plant Industry.

Hawaii New Pest Advisories
Hawaii Department of Agriculture.

Plant Pest Alerts (North Carolina)
North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Plant Industry Division. Plant Protection Section.

University/Academic

Invasive Alerts
University of Connecticut. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Invasive Plant Atlas of New England.

Pest Alerts
University of Florida. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

Pest Alert
North Carolina State University. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Departments of Entomology and Plant Pathology.

International

Aquatic Invasions
European Research Network on Aquatic Invasive Species.

Pest Alerts and News Bulletins
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (Canada).

New Disease Reports
British Society for Plant Pathology.

Pest Alert System
Caribbean Pest Information Network.

European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO) Alert List and EPPO Reporting Service
European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization.

Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)
International Society for Infectious Diseases.
The global electronic reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases & toxins

Organizations

Pest Alerts
Massachusetts Introduced Pests Outreach Project.
Also provides sign up option to receive alerts by email.

National Plant Board
National Plant Board.
The National Plant Board is an organization of the plant pest regulatory agencies of each of the states and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

Phytosanitary Alert System / Official Pest Reports
North American Plant Protection Organization.