Don’t let invasive grasses fuel Australia’s next disaster
Australia’s iconic parks are facing a growing threat. Invasive grasses are making fires burn hotter and faster, harming wildlife and releasing huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. With the next federal budget looming, we have a short window to act and secure the support needed to protect these precious places.
Invasive species are driving more than 80 per cent of Australia’s most vulnerable native plants and animals towards extinction.
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Don’t let governments off the hook, help us call for real action that protects our natural environment from invasive species.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, tjanpi kura (bad grass), mamu tjanpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often.
Australia’s wildlife is under attack. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day – invasive species are capturing and killing native animals, trashing and trampling protected areas and driving our wildlife closer to extinction.
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Deer-related car crashes in Tasmania have surged by more than 160 per cent in five years, with insurance claims costs rising by more than 330 per cent – prompting fresh calls for urgent action to rein in the state’s booming feral deer population.
South Australia is on the verge of achieving something no other mainland state has done – the eradication of a well-established invasive vertebrate. More than 28,400 feral deer have already been removed under the state’s nation-leading program, and eradication is now within reach.
Right now, Australia is quietly sliding back towards the conditions that made those plagues possible. All because the federal Government has not continued to fund the one thing that would prevent it – biocontrol.
The Northern Territory government’s draft Buffel Grass Weed Management Plan fails to meet the scale and urgency of one of Australia’s most damaging invasive species, the Invasive Species Council says.
The Invasive Species Council is warning that a looming federal funding cut could unravel years of progress controlling gamba grass across Kakadu National Park and West Arnhem, putting wildlife, Country and communities at risk.
Western Australia is eagerly waiting for the state government to act on a promise made last year to fix outdated cat laws that prevent local councils from effectively enforcing pet cat containment – as new research reveals the consequences of continued inaction.
Your good will for nature.
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.