The Invasive Species Council welcomes action to ensure that targets from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are incorporated into Australia’s national conservation agenda. However, we are deeply concerned about the draft Nature Strategy targets, as proposed in the discussion paper Updating Australia’s Strategy for Nature (February 2024).
In this submission, we outline the additional funding required for initiatives and policies over the next four years which would improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
In this submission, we call on the Hon Kate Worden MLA, Minister for Environment Climate Change and Water Security to declare buffel grass a weed under the NT Weeds Management Act for all land tenure in the Northern Territory.
The Invasive Species Council appreciates the opportunity to make a submission to this important Senate inquiry into the impacts and management of feral horses in the Australian Alps.
The Invasive Species Council considers the Import risk review for psittacine birds from all countries highly inadequate.
The risks of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) arriving in Australia and causing mass mortality of native birds and mammals are likely to have increased.
Investing in prevention and early action are always the most cost-effective and damage mitigating approach to invasive species, but the current level of funding allocated to environmental biosecurity priorities is insufficient and this is costing Australia.
The Invasive Species Council recommends that the Gene Technology Regulator refuses the application for a licence to conduct a field trial of perennial ryegrass genetically modified for increased metabolisable energy content. We strongly disagree with the assessment that the ‘risks to the environment from the proposed release are negligible’.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on options for sustainable funding and investment to strengthen biosecurity.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission into the draft of Tasmania’s Biosecurity Strategy 2022-2027. The draft strategy is a well developed document, and shows that Tasmania takes biosecurity seriously, and considers all components as important.
The discussion paper presents a clear vision for a stronger, streamlined and inclusive Biosecurity act.
While we can understand the rationale of consolidating biosecurity with food safety into one strategy and understand the relation and influence between them, it is our view that this removes the clear and targeted focus on biosecurity that the previous strategy communicated effectively.
We support efforts to strengthen the national biosecurity system, with particular focus on prevention and early action to prevent detrimental impacts on the Australian environment from invasive plants, animals and diseases.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes action to ensure that targets from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are incorporated into Australia’s national conservation agenda. However, we are deeply concerned about the draft Nature Strategy targets, as proposed in the discussion paper Updating Australia’s Strategy for Nature (February 2024).
In this submission, we outline the additional funding required for initiatives and policies over the next four years which would improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
In this submission, we call on the Hon Kate Worden MLA, Minister for Environment Climate Change and Water Security to declare buffel grass a weed under the NT Weeds Management Act for all land tenure in the Northern Territory.
The Invasive Species Council appreciates the opportunity to make a submission to this important Senate inquiry into the impacts and management of feral horses in the Australian Alps.
The Invasive Species Council considers the Import risk review for psittacine birds from all countries highly inadequate.
The risks of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) arriving in Australia and causing mass mortality of native birds and mammals are likely to have increased.
Investing in prevention and early action are always the most cost-effective and damage mitigating approach to invasive species, but the current level of funding allocated to environmental biosecurity priorities is insufficient and this is costing Australia.
The Invasive Species Council recommends that the Gene Technology Regulator refuses the application for a licence to conduct a field trial of perennial ryegrass genetically modified for increased metabolisable energy content. We strongly disagree with the assessment that the ‘risks to the environment from the proposed release are negligible’.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on options for sustainable funding and investment to strengthen biosecurity.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission into the draft of Tasmania’s Biosecurity Strategy 2022-2027. The draft strategy is a well developed document, and shows that Tasmania takes biosecurity seriously, and considers all components as important.
The discussion paper presents a clear vision for a stronger, streamlined and inclusive Biosecurity act.
While we can understand the rationale of consolidating biosecurity with food safety into one strategy and understand the relation and influence between them, it is our view that this removes the clear and targeted focus on biosecurity that the previous strategy communicated effectively.
We support efforts to strengthen the national biosecurity system, with particular focus on prevention and early action to prevent detrimental impacts on the Australian environment from invasive plants, animals and diseases.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes action to ensure that targets from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are incorporated into Australia’s national conservation agenda. However, we are deeply concerned about the draft Nature Strategy targets, as proposed in the discussion paper Updating Australia’s Strategy for Nature (February 2024).
In this submission, we outline the additional funding required for initiatives and policies over the next four years which would improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
In this submission, we call on the Hon Kate Worden MLA, Minister for Environment Climate Change and Water Security to declare buffel grass a weed under the NT Weeds Management Act for all land tenure in the Northern Territory.
The Invasive Species Council appreciates the opportunity to make a submission to this important Senate inquiry into the impacts and management of feral horses in the Australian Alps.
The Invasive Species Council considers the Import risk review for psittacine birds from all countries highly inadequate.
The risks of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) arriving in Australia and causing mass mortality of native birds and mammals are likely to have increased.
Investing in prevention and early action are always the most cost-effective and damage mitigating approach to invasive species, but the current level of funding allocated to environmental biosecurity priorities is insufficient and this is costing Australia.
The Invasive Species Council recommends that the Gene Technology Regulator refuses the application for a licence to conduct a field trial of perennial ryegrass genetically modified for increased metabolisable energy content. We strongly disagree with the assessment that the ‘risks to the environment from the proposed release are negligible’.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the opportunity to provide comments on options for sustainable funding and investment to strengthen biosecurity.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the opportunity to provide a submission into the draft of Tasmania’s Biosecurity Strategy 2022-2027. The draft strategy is a well developed document, and shows that Tasmania takes biosecurity seriously, and considers all components as important.
The discussion paper presents a clear vision for a stronger, streamlined and inclusive Biosecurity act.
While we can understand the rationale of consolidating biosecurity with food safety into one strategy and understand the relation and influence between them, it is our view that this removes the clear and targeted focus on biosecurity that the previous strategy communicated effectively.
We support efforts to strengthen the national biosecurity system, with particular focus on prevention and early action to prevent detrimental impacts on the Australian environment from invasive plants, animals 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.
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.
