DWG's Green Card qualification is accepted nationally as the Gold Standard training package for environmental hygiene and biosecurity best-practice. This course builds capacity to implement practical environmental hygiene protocols, and is targeted at practitioners with a fieldwork or planning component to their role. Phytophthora Dieback is engaged with as an example of how to combat wide-spread biosecurity threats to biodiversity, ecosystem health, numerous industries, cultural and environmental values.
Phytophthora Dieback Hygiene will be presented alongside new activities on Myrtle Rust surveillance, citizen science approaches to biosecurity surveillance, and updated information on Phytophthora impacts on broad aspects of ecosystem function such as habitat value for native fauna and loss of biomass in the landscape.
This workshop will be presented by a registered trainer who is a specialist in Dieback Management and highly experienced in Green Card training delivery, and will include a theory session (in a classroom), a practical session where trainees learn a practical approach to inspecting and cleaning a vehicle/field equipment. A written assessment concludes the day. Trainees must pass the assessment to complete the training, then they will be awarded their DWG Green Card and added to the Green Card database.
This qualification should be in every ecologist's toolkit for responsible fieldwork, and is a legislative requirement from DBCA when operating on CALM Act-managed lands.
Visit our website https://www.dwg.org.au/green-card-training/ or contact us for more information, or to arrange a bespoke course for your workplace.
