What is Biosecurity?
By Niko, Kaedun & Josh
Introduction
New zealand mountains and waterways are precious and we got to keep unwanted pests out of our country. Biosecurity protects a country against pests and infectious diseases which affect animals and people. In New zealand biosecurity laws aim to stop new pests and diseases arriving and to help to wipe out or control the ones that have managed to get in.
Biosecurity Meanings
Biosecurity has different meanings and is defined differently according to various training to make people go along the rules. The original definition of biosecurity started out as a set of preventive measures designed to reduce the risk of transmission of infectious diseases in crops and livestock, quarantine pests and living organisms (Koblentz, 2010). The emerging nature of biosecurity dangers means that small scale risks blow up rapidly, Therefore an effective policy becomes a challenge for there are boundaries on time and resources available for Checking in threats and estimating if it will happen of their Non rare Event that may have incidents.
The term was first used by the Farming and environmental communities. Starting from the late 1990s in response to the dangers of biological terrorism, biosecurity Surrounds or holds within the prevention of the intentional removal (theft) of biological materials from research in laboratories. These preventive measures are a combination of systems and practices put into its place at bioscience laboratories to the use of dangerous Viruses to give diseases and toxins for Hostile use, as well as by customs agents and therefore and natural resource managers to prevent the spread of these biological agents.
Biosecurity Dogs
Dogs can also be checking in bags dogs use their nose to sniff out anything in bags just in case.
Border security
People in border security protect our whole whole country and keep the border safe
How x-ray machines work at airports
Your carry-on items are sent through a machine that X-rays the contents. While you are stepping through the metal detector, your carry-on items are going through the X-ray system and then out it goes.
Smuggling in goods
People often Like to get other stuff from other countries to somebody else in another country and those Goods could be Drugs, Weapons, Lists, Animals or something worse like stuff off the Black market or something like that and That is what exactly those countries don’t won't in their own countries,
That why we have Border security- So we don’t have any trouble or dangers to the people in that type of country
Smuggling out goods
New Zealand's geckos and skinks are some of the rarest in the world this makes them valuable on the black market for about up to 12,000 dollars in Europe. A smuggler tried to take 16 jewelled geckos out of New Zealand in small tubes and in 2004, two orchid growers were caught trying to smuggle out over 100 native orchids
Why are we reading this text?
Well we read this text to inform people about the infections diseases. And to tell people to not try smuggling things in because the border security is to good.
That people bring in infections diseases into country's, some people get caught and some people can be sneaky to pull it off
What does the author of this text want us to know?