Luke Halling is a biosecurity and entomology consultant servicing federal governments, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and wider horticulture industry. He provides biosecurity project design, logistics planning and implementation, as well as pest monitoring, surveillance, identification and management advice.
Luke is an adjunct industry fellow with the Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research, and holds an Advanced BSc with First Class Honours in ecology and genetics. He spent 20 years as an entomologist for the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, based in Sydney, Broome and then Cairns. Luke is an adjunct industry fellow with the Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research. His Pacific Islands experience includes plant health surveillance, diagnostics and training in Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, biosecurity development in the Solomon Islands, and invasive ant and fruit fly management in Tuvalu.
Luke Halling is a biosecurity and entomology consultant servicing federal governments, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. and horticulture industry. He provides Biosecurity project design, logistics planning and implementation, as well as pest monitoring, surveillance, identification and management advice. Luke holds an Advanced BSc with First Class Honours in ecology and genetics. He spent 20 years as an entomologist for the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, based in Sydney, Broome and then Cairns. Luke is an adjunct industry fellow with the Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research. HIs Pacific Islands experience includes plant health surveillance, diagnostics and training in Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, biosecurity development in the Solomon Islands, and invasive ant and fruit fly management in Tuvalu.