The keeping of non-indigenous birds poses a serious risk to the natural environment. The Victorian Government’s discussion paper fails to properly address this risk and
In general the government is commended for the development of the biosecurity strategy and the goal of bringing greater attention to environmental biosecurity. The strategy
A submission arguing that there needs to be a more business-like approach to invasive species threats – identification of long-term goals and targets, costed plans, a closing of major gaps in legislation and policy and proper involvement of the community sector.
A paper prepared for the Biosecurity Advisory Council (reports to the federal minister for agriculture). This paper outlines the benefits and costs of community engagement in decision-making and policy-setting in environmental biosecurity, assesses the current state of engagement at the national level and makes recommendations for improvement.
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.
July 2007
This report by WWF-Australia examines the threat posed by poisonous garden plants and makes five recommendations for low-cost solutions.
2005
The report by the Australian Biosecurity Group proposes a framework to strengthen Australia’s biosecurity shield to protect us from weeds, pests and diseases consisting of ten elements.
Invasive animals, particularly foxes, cats, rabbits and rats, have caused most of Australia’s animal extinctions and imperil many more species. Hardhoofed feral herbivores like goats
A ‘white list’ or ‘permitted list’ approach to the sale and movement of plants is the safest way to prevent the spread of potentially weedy plants.
The keeping of non-indigenous birds poses a serious risk to the natural environment. The Victorian Government’s discussion paper fails to properly address this risk and
In general the government is commended for the development of the biosecurity strategy and the goal of bringing greater attention to environmental biosecurity. The strategy
A submission arguing that there needs to be a more business-like approach to invasive species threats – identification of long-term goals and targets, costed plans, a closing of major gaps in legislation and policy and proper involvement of the community sector.
A paper prepared for the Biosecurity Advisory Council (reports to the federal minister for agriculture). This paper outlines the benefits and costs of community engagement in decision-making and policy-setting in environmental biosecurity, assesses the current state of engagement at the national level and makes recommendations for improvement.
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.
July 2007
This report by WWF-Australia examines the threat posed by poisonous garden plants and makes five recommendations for low-cost solutions.
2005
The report by the Australian Biosecurity Group proposes a framework to strengthen Australia’s biosecurity shield to protect us from weeds, pests and diseases consisting of ten elements.
Invasive animals, particularly foxes, cats, rabbits and rats, have caused most of Australia’s animal extinctions and imperil many more species. Hardhoofed feral herbivores like goats
A ‘white list’ or ‘permitted list’ approach to the sale and movement of plants is the safest way to prevent the spread of potentially weedy plants.
The keeping of non-indigenous birds poses a serious risk to the natural environment. The Victorian Government’s discussion paper fails to properly address this risk and
In general the government is commended for the development of the biosecurity strategy and the goal of bringing greater attention to environmental biosecurity. The strategy
A submission arguing that there needs to be a more business-like approach to invasive species threats – identification of long-term goals and targets, costed plans, a closing of major gaps in legislation and policy and proper involvement of the community sector.
A paper prepared for the Biosecurity Advisory Council (reports to the federal minister for agriculture). This paper outlines the benefits and costs of community engagement in decision-making and policy-setting in environmental biosecurity, assesses the current state of engagement at the national level and makes recommendations for improvement.
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.
July 2007
This report by WWF-Australia examines the threat posed by poisonous garden plants and makes five recommendations for low-cost solutions.
2005
The report by the Australian Biosecurity Group proposes a framework to strengthen Australia’s biosecurity shield to protect us from weeds, pests and diseases consisting of ten elements.
Invasive animals, particularly foxes, cats, rabbits and rats, have caused most of Australia’s animal extinctions and imperil many more species. Hardhoofed feral herbivores like goats
A ‘white list’ or ‘permitted list’ approach to the sale and movement of plants is the safest way to prevent the spread of potentially weedy plants.
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The Invasive Species Council was formed in 2002 to seek stronger laws, policies and programs to protect nature from harmful pests, weeds and diseases.
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.
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.
