The impact of feral deer, pigs and goats in Australia
2 November, 2018
Submission to the Australian Senate inquiry into the impacts of feral deer, pigs and goats in Australia, November 2018.
Submission to the Australian Senate inquiry into the impacts of feral deer, pigs and goats in Australia, November 2018.
We are producing research and policy analysis to identify weaknesses in Australia’s island biosecurity and environmental legislation. Our report on Australia’s failure to abate biodiversity threats has numerous examples of how we are failing to protect our unique island biodiversity from invasive species.
Submitted: January 2018
Comments on the exposure draft of the Biosecurity Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2017. The proposed changes are fully supported.
November 2017
With the Australian Government assuming responsibility for pre-border and border biosecurity there is now potential for Norfolk Island to be an exemplar in conservation-based island biosecurity.
Submitted: June 2017
This submission to the draft Tasmanian biosecurity legislation provides 25 recommendations ranging from suggestions that in environmental biosecurity matters the Environment Minister be consulted through to requiring a general biosecurity duty.
March 2017
Our best-practice environmental guide for Australian policy makers shows how we can create a biosecurity system that’s properly aimed at delivering real environmental protection on behalf of all Australians.
Submitted: February 2017
This submission to the draft regulations to the NSW Biosecurity Act 2016 rejects the regulations since they appear to merely transition existing management practices to the new legislation without a review of measures to reduce environmental biosecurity risks.
Submitted: March 2016
Invasive species are an even bigger problem for the natural environment than they are for agriculture, and so demand a greater focus on reducing their risks to the environment through the NSW Biosecurity Act.
A submission by the Invasive Species Council to the Senate inquiry into the Biosecurity Bill 2014 and endorsed by 27 other environmental groups.
Submission to proposed framework for a NSW Biosecurity Act prepared in Jun 2104 by the Invasive Species Council, the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators, the National Parks Association of NSW and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW. The submission seeks legal guarantees to promote prevention, better safeguard the public interest, avoid conflicts of interest and ensure accountability.
As a replacement for the century-old Quarantine Act 1908, the Biosecurity Bill 2012 represents a rare opportunity to bolster Australia’s capacity to protect the environment
The Invasive Species Council and the Victorian National Parks Association have prepared a joint repsonse to the proposed Invasive Species Management Bill for Victoria. This
August 2010
A report that calls for better weed laws, policies and funding in NSW to tackle weed invasions that are overwhelming authorities and landholders.
May 2009
A paper by WWF-Australia that outlines the strategic approach, design factors and policy objectives and instruments needed to construct a strong and effective national regulatory framework for weeds.
July 2007
This report by WWF-Australia examines the threat posed by poisonous garden plants and makes five recommendations for low-cost solutions.
Submission to the Australian Senate inquiry into the impacts of feral deer, pigs and goats in Australia, November 2018.
We are producing research and policy analysis to identify weaknesses in Australia’s island biosecurity and environmental legislation. Our report on Australia’s failure to abate biodiversity threats has numerous examples of how we are failing to protect our unique island biodiversity from invasive species.
Submitted: January 2018
Comments on the exposure draft of the Biosecurity Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2017. The proposed changes are fully supported.
November 2017
With the Australian Government assuming responsibility for pre-border and border biosecurity there is now potential for Norfolk Island to be an exemplar in conservation-based island biosecurity.
Submitted: June 2017
This submission to the draft Tasmanian biosecurity legislation provides 25 recommendations ranging from suggestions that in environmental biosecurity matters the Environment Minister be consulted through to requiring a general biosecurity duty.
March 2017
Our best-practice environmental guide for Australian policy makers shows how we can create a biosecurity system that’s properly aimed at delivering real environmental protection on behalf of all Australians.
Submitted: February 2017
This submission to the draft regulations to the NSW Biosecurity Act 2016 rejects the regulations since they appear to merely transition existing management practices to the new legislation without a review of measures to reduce environmental biosecurity risks.
Submitted: March 2016
Invasive species are an even bigger problem for the natural environment than they are for agriculture, and so demand a greater focus on reducing their risks to the environment through the NSW Biosecurity Act.
A submission by the Invasive Species Council to the Senate inquiry into the Biosecurity Bill 2014 and endorsed by 27 other environmental groups.
Submission to proposed framework for a NSW Biosecurity Act prepared in Jun 2104 by the Invasive Species Council, the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators, the National Parks Association of NSW and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW. The submission seeks legal guarantees to promote prevention, better safeguard the public interest, avoid conflicts of interest and ensure accountability.
As a replacement for the century-old Quarantine Act 1908, the Biosecurity Bill 2012 represents a rare opportunity to bolster Australia’s capacity to protect the environment
The Invasive Species Council and the Victorian National Parks Association have prepared a joint repsonse to the proposed Invasive Species Management Bill for Victoria. This
August 2010
A report that calls for better weed laws, policies and funding in NSW to tackle weed invasions that are overwhelming authorities and landholders.
May 2009
A paper by WWF-Australia that outlines the strategic approach, design factors and policy objectives and instruments needed to construct a strong and effective national regulatory framework for weeds.
July 2007
This report by WWF-Australia examines the threat posed by poisonous garden plants and makes five recommendations for low-cost solutions.
Submission to the Australian Senate inquiry into the impacts of feral deer, pigs and goats in Australia, November 2018.
We are producing research and policy analysis to identify weaknesses in Australia’s island biosecurity and environmental legislation. Our report on Australia’s failure to abate biodiversity threats has numerous examples of how we are failing to protect our unique island biodiversity from invasive species.
Submitted: January 2018
Comments on the exposure draft of the Biosecurity Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2017. The proposed changes are fully supported.
November 2017
With the Australian Government assuming responsibility for pre-border and border biosecurity there is now potential for Norfolk Island to be an exemplar in conservation-based island biosecurity.
Submitted: June 2017
This submission to the draft Tasmanian biosecurity legislation provides 25 recommendations ranging from suggestions that in environmental biosecurity matters the Environment Minister be consulted through to requiring a general biosecurity duty.
March 2017
Our best-practice environmental guide for Australian policy makers shows how we can create a biosecurity system that’s properly aimed at delivering real environmental protection on behalf of all Australians.
Submitted: February 2017
This submission to the draft regulations to the NSW Biosecurity Act 2016 rejects the regulations since they appear to merely transition existing management practices to the new legislation without a review of measures to reduce environmental biosecurity risks.
Submitted: March 2016
Invasive species are an even bigger problem for the natural environment than they are for agriculture, and so demand a greater focus on reducing their risks to the environment through the NSW Biosecurity Act.
A submission by the Invasive Species Council to the Senate inquiry into the Biosecurity Bill 2014 and endorsed by 27 other environmental groups.
Submission to proposed framework for a NSW Biosecurity Act prepared in Jun 2104 by the Invasive Species Council, the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators, the National Parks Association of NSW and the Nature Conservation Council of NSW. The submission seeks legal guarantees to promote prevention, better safeguard the public interest, avoid conflicts of interest and ensure accountability.
As a replacement for the century-old Quarantine Act 1908, the Biosecurity Bill 2012 represents a rare opportunity to bolster Australia’s capacity to protect the environment
The Invasive Species Council and the Victorian National Parks Association have prepared a joint repsonse to the proposed Invasive Species Management Bill for Victoria. This
August 2010
A report that calls for better weed laws, policies and funding in NSW to tackle weed invasions that are overwhelming authorities and landholders.
May 2009
A paper by WWF-Australia that outlines the strategic approach, design factors and policy objectives and instruments needed to construct a strong and effective national regulatory framework for weeds.
July 2007
This report by WWF-Australia examines the threat posed by poisonous garden plants and makes five recommendations for low-cost solutions.
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The Invasive Species Council acknowledges the Traditional Custodians throughout Australia and their connections to land and sea. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. The Invasive Species Council supports voting ‘YES’ for a Voice to Parliament.
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.
