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Invasive species are driving more than 80 per cent of Australia’s most vulnerable native plants and animals towards extinction.
How to help
Don’t let governments off the hook, help us call for real action that protects our natural environment from invasive species.
Feral horses are trashing and trampling alpine waterways and pushing native wildlife closer to extinction. Tell your NSW MP to end special protections for invasive species.
Escaped garden weeds like lantana and blackberries are choking our streams and bushland.
News
The latest news and updates from our campaigns

28 August, 2025
| By Nicola Barton
The Invasive Species Council has slammed a new application to import Bengal cats – a hybrid of Asian leopard cats and domestic cats – warning it would mean deliberately unleashing more genetic monsters into a country with wildlife already being devastated by feral and roaming pet cats.

20 August, 2025
| By Nicola Barton
The Invasive Species Council says mining companies should step in to cover the cost of fire ant outbreaks linked to their operations, after new detections confirmed infestations across five mine sites in Queensland’s Central Highlands and Isaac Council regions.

19 August, 2025
| By Nicola Barton
This week Treasurer Jim Chalmers will gather economic leaders to debate productivity – but unless they confront the rising costs of environmental decline and invasive species, they’ll miss the most urgent reform of our time.

18 August, 2025
| By Nicola Barton
The Invasive Species Council, NSW Nature Conservation Council and the Biodiversity Council have criticised a NSW Upper House inquiry report by the Animal Justice Party for failing to back legal changes to allow local governments to bring in cat containment rules to protect wildlife and pet cats.

18 August, 2025
| By Nicola Barton
Leaders from Australia’s environment sector have delivered a set of recommendations to the government ahead of its three-day economic roundtable this week.

11 August, 2025
| By Nicola Barton
The Invasive Species Council’s mission for a wildlife revival is entering an exciting new chapter, officially joining forces with Rewilding Australia.
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Invasive species destroy our natural places and transform the landscape, leaving our native animals without shelter or food and natural systems destroyed. You can help create an Australia where our unique wildlife is safe in flourishing protected areas.