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Tell the premier to protect Queensland from invasive species

Queensland is home to some of the best nature in Australia, but it’s also a hot spot for invasive species. In the lead up to the state election, the new LNP government pledged to strengthen invasive species control. Now, we must make sure they follow through on their promises and protect animals, like the critically endangered tinker frog from extinction.

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Fire ants, feral deer, weeds and roaming cats are ravaging Queensland’s precious places, pushing animals, like the tinker frog, toward extinction.

Now, we have an opportunity to stop the destruction. In October, Queenslanders elected a new government. The first 100 days will be both a challenge and an unmissable chance to secure a safer, healthier future for our environment and way of life.

In the lead-up to the election, the LNP pledged to strengthen invasive species control.

They committed to boosting fire ant eradication efforts, ongoing Yellow Crazy Ant eradication in the Wet Tropics and increased biosecurity funding. Now we must ensure they follow through on these promises — and more.

To make sure we’re set up for success, we’ve crafted a roadmap of essential solutions for the LNP’s first 100 days in office.

This includes:

  • Launching a parliamentary inquiry into invasive species management and biosecurity in Queensland,
  • Boosting fire ant suppression funding and running a high-impact summer communications campaign on fire ants,
  • Developing a workforce pipeline plan for invasive species management,
  • Holding a stakeholder roundtable on feral deer management, and
  • Restricting sale of Amazon frogbit under the
  • Biosecurity Act with a transparent process for community input on new restricted weeds.
  • Support the federal Threat Abatement Plans for feral cats, feral goats and escaped garden weeds and
  • Prepare for the looming threat of H5N1 bird flu in wildlife.

Together, we can urge the new government to act swiftly on these pledges.

Write directly to your new Premier to show him you care about protecting Queensland from the growing invasive species mega-threat.

Your email could make the difference between winning the fight against invasive species or watching our precious places and native animals be overrun.

We know from experience that when politicians receive personal emails from people like you, they take it seriously. So please complete the form to get your writing kit and send a message now!

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Your support to protect critically endangered and vulnerable species from extinction is vital. Together, we can ensure governments prioritise action on invasive species and protect our wildlife and iconic places.

The Invasive Species Council was formed in 2002 to seek stronger laws, policies and programs to protect nature from harmful pests, weeds and diseases.

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Dear Project Team,

[YOUR PERSONALISED MESSAGE WILL APPEAR HERE.] 

I support the amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan to allow our incredible National Parks staff to use aerial shooting as one method to rapidly reduce feral horse numbers. I want to see feral horse numbers urgently reduced in order to save the national park and our native wildlife that live there.

The current approach is not solving the problem. Feral horse numbers have rapidly increased in Kosciuszko National Park to around 18,000, a 30% jump in just the past 2 years. With the population so high, thousands of feral horses need to be removed annually to reduce numbers and stop our National Park becoming a horse paddock. Aerial shooting, undertaken humanely and safely by professionals using standard protocols, is the only way this can happen.

The government’s own management plan for feral horses states that ‘if undertaken in accordance with best practice, aerial shooting can have the lowest negative animal welfare impacts of all lethal control methods’.

This humane and effective practice is already used across Australia to manage hundreds of thousands of feral animals like horses, deer, pigs, and goats.

Trapping and rehoming of feral horses has been used in Kosciuszko National Park for well over a decade but has consistently failed to reduce the population, has delayed meaningful action and is expensive. There are too many feral horses in the Alps and not enough demand for rehoming for it to be relied upon for the reduction of the population.

Fertility control as a management tool is only effective for a small, geographically isolated, and accessible population of feral horses where the management outcome sought is to maintain the population at its current size. It is not a viable option to reduce the large and growing feral horse population in the vast and rugged terrain of Kosciuszko National Park.

Feral horses are trashing and trampling our sensitive alpine ecosystems and streams, causing the decline and extinction of native animals. The federal government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee has stated that feral horses ‘may be the crucial factor that causes final extinction’ for 12 alpine species.

I recognise the sad reality that urgent and humane measures are necessary to urgently remove the horses or they will destroy the Snowies and the native wildlife that call the mountains home. I support a healthy national park where native species like the Corroboree Frog and Mountain Pygmy Possum can thrive.

Kind regards,
[Your name]
[Your email address]
[Your postcode]


Dear Project Team,

[YOUR PERSONALISED MESSAGE WILL APPEAR HERE.] 

I support the amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan to allow our incredible National Parks staff to use aerial shooting as one method to rapidly reduce feral horse numbers. I want to see feral horse numbers urgently reduced in order to save the national park and our native wildlife that live there.

The current approach is not solving the problem. Feral horse numbers have rapidly increased in Kosciuszko National Park to around 18,000, a 30% jump in just the past 2 years. With the population so high, thousands of feral horses need to be removed annually to reduce numbers and stop our National Park becoming a horse paddock. Aerial shooting, undertaken humanely and safely by professionals using standard protocols, is the only way this can happen.

The government’s own management plan for feral horses states that ‘if undertaken in accordance with best practice, aerial shooting can have the lowest negative animal welfare impacts of all lethal control methods’.

This humane and effective practice is already used across Australia to manage hundreds of thousands of feral animals like horses, deer, pigs, and goats.

Trapping and rehoming of feral horses has been used in Kosciuszko National Park for well over a decade but has consistently failed to reduce the population, has delayed meaningful action and is expensive. There are too many feral horses in the Alps and not enough demand for rehoming for it to be relied upon for the reduction of the population.

Fertility control as a management tool is only effective for a small, geographically isolated, and accessible population of feral horses where the management outcome sought is to maintain the population at its current size. It is not a viable option to reduce the large and growing feral horse population in the vast and rugged terrain of Kosciuszko National Park.

Feral horses are trashing and trampling our sensitive alpine ecosystems and streams, causing the decline and extinction of native animals. The federal government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee has stated that feral horses ‘may be the crucial factor that causes final extinction’ for 12 alpine species.

I recognise the sad reality that urgent and humane measures are necessary to urgently remove the horses or they will destroy the Snowies and the native wildlife that call the mountains home. I support a healthy national park where native species like the Corroboree Frog and Mountain Pygmy Possum can thrive.

Kind regards,
[Your name]
[Your email address]
[Your postcode]