Welcome to the IOBC-ATRS website. The International Organisation for Biological Control – Afrotropical Regional Section (IOBC-ATRS) covers the area of south, central, eastern and western Africa and associated islands – all countries except Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

Africa has a long and successful history of biological control. Among the highlights are the biological control of the cassava mealybug, the mango mealybug and the cassava green mite, as well as the biological control of invasive alien plants, particularly in South Africa, and waterweeds in particular across the region.