Martin Weaver
City of Perth
Tuesday | 10:15am | ARB Stream
TALK TITLE
Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB) – The City of Perth, Western Australia response and experience….so far!
BIO
Martin Weaver is a tree advocate, striving for the best outcome that integrates, protects and promotes arboriculture. With 25 years of experience that includes Local Government, Curator of the National Arboretum of NZ, Consultancy, Technical Sales and Business Development in the UK, NZ and Australia. Currently working for the City of Perth, WA as the Coordinator for Arboriculture, Martin manages 18500 trees throughout a 20 sq km highly engineered environment and WA’s oldest recognised formal Parks.
ABSTRACT
Since August 2021, PSHB has become the largest Biosecurity response in WA state history. In December 2022 the City of Perth received its first formal notice to remove trees that had “succumbed” to the invasive beetle. Martin Weaver, Coordinator for Arboriculture will provide an overview of response of the situation, the dynamic nature of adaption to the response overtime and experiences. With over 4000 trees removed state-wide, the City of Perth response has only led to 34 of those, this presentation will lay out how this response has fought for a tree first outcome.