In early July, the Plant Health Service of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Livestock of the Region of Extremadura in Spain reported the presence of Xylella fastidiosa, subspecies fastidiosa, in a wooded area of Valencia de Alcántara, close...

The European Commission proposed an update of the rules to prevent the introduction and the spread of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe. The new provisions include relaxing specific requirements for monitoring and replanting in the “containment zones,” where eradicating...

UN-FAO and IPCC (International Plant Protection Convention) produced a video entitled 'Sniffer Dogs Saving Olive Trees from a Deadly Pest', telling about the research conducted in Apulia to train sniffing dogs to detect plants infected with Xylella fastidiosa....

The European Commission published a draft regulation adding new municipalities to the Apulia containment zone for Xylella fastidiosa. Within the containment zones, EU member states can apply measures that are less stringent than the measures for eradication but are...

The BeXyl work package 8 represents the social science contribution to finding new solutions to manage Xylella fastidiosa outbreaks on the ground. The social scientist at Forest Research UK, Rachel Orchard, tells us more in the following post, which she wrote after...