Stop Australia’s next rabbit plague before it explodes
For many Australians, rabbit plagues feel like a problem from another era, something captured in black-and-white photos or remembered by grandparents. That history is closer to repeating than most people realise.
Invasive species are driving more than 80 per cent of Australia’s most vulnerable native plants and animals towards extinction.
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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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The Invasive Species Council has applauded the South Australian government’s $800,000 commitment to continue the Dudley Peninsula Feral Cat Eradication Program on Kangaroo Island, announced today, calling it a critical step toward securing one of Australia’s most important conservation opportunities...
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.
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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.