The Australian government has just agreed to a tougher response and national regulations to prevent new marine pests coming into our waters.
We’ve argued for a greater focus on the eradication of new and emerging invasive species in the current NSW pest animal management review.
Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce was only one of a very impressive list of winners recognised for making a major contribution to protecting Australia from dangerous new invasive species.
A year after we exposed just how easy it is to illegally import banned weed seeds into Australia via the internet one international company still doesn’t get the picture, and is continuing to send prohibited seeds into the country.
A new seven-year invasive species plan being drawn up by the NSW Government looks good on paper, but we have a few reservations. You’ve got until October 2 to make a submission on the draft plan.
Treating feral deer as game rather than pests. The potential for goat farming to create major landscape degradation. Zero policy on how to tackle red-eared slider turtles. These are just some of the issues we raised recently at a workshop put on by NSW’s Natural Resources Commission.
Moves by federal and state governments to change the way Australia manages high impact pests and diseases has set our alarm bells ringing. Are our governments looking at hoisting the white flag on all but a few popular causes?
New moves to make Australian agriculture more competitive could have a few positive knock-on effects for the environment.
Labor leader Bill Shorten outlined his vision for the party’s future direction at its national conference in July, but amid all the debate the party almost overlooked one of the biggest threats to Australia’s environment – invasive species.
Want a quick wrap-up of invasive species issues across Australia? Then check out our new State Updates.
A landmark Senate inquiry report released this month sets a strong new direction to prevent new weeds, pests and diseases.
A concerned supporter sent us this email exchange after seeing privet hedges featured at a private garden and function centre on the NSW South Coast.
State governments have told the Senate inquiry into environmental biosecurity that the system is failing.
A new global survey shows that new pasture plants such as grasses present a substantial weed risk yet these plants are still widely developed and sold in Australia with little regulation from government.
A ‘top six on the richter scale’ list of high priority threats to the environment provided to the Senate biosecurity inquiry begs many more questions than it answers.
The Australian government has just agreed to a tougher response and national regulations to prevent new marine pests coming into our waters.
We’ve argued for a greater focus on the eradication of new and emerging invasive species in the current NSW pest animal management review.
Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce was only one of a very impressive list of winners recognised for making a major contribution to protecting Australia from dangerous new invasive species.
A year after we exposed just how easy it is to illegally import banned weed seeds into Australia via the internet one international company still doesn’t get the picture, and is continuing to send prohibited seeds into the country.
A new seven-year invasive species plan being drawn up by the NSW Government looks good on paper, but we have a few reservations. You’ve got until October 2 to make a submission on the draft plan.
Treating feral deer as game rather than pests. The potential for goat farming to create major landscape degradation. Zero policy on how to tackle red-eared slider turtles. These are just some of the issues we raised recently at a workshop put on by NSW’s Natural Resources Commission.
Moves by federal and state governments to change the way Australia manages high impact pests and diseases has set our alarm bells ringing. Are our governments looking at hoisting the white flag on all but a few popular causes?
New moves to make Australian agriculture more competitive could have a few positive knock-on effects for the environment.
Labor leader Bill Shorten outlined his vision for the party’s future direction at its national conference in July, but amid all the debate the party almost overlooked one of the biggest threats to Australia’s environment – invasive species.
Want a quick wrap-up of invasive species issues across Australia? Then check out our new State Updates.
A landmark Senate inquiry report released this month sets a strong new direction to prevent new weeds, pests and diseases.
A concerned supporter sent us this email exchange after seeing privet hedges featured at a private garden and function centre on the NSW South Coast.
State governments have told the Senate inquiry into environmental biosecurity that the system is failing.
A new global survey shows that new pasture plants such as grasses present a substantial weed risk yet these plants are still widely developed and sold in Australia with little regulation from government.
A ‘top six on the richter scale’ list of high priority threats to the environment provided to the Senate biosecurity inquiry begs many more questions than it answers.
The Australian government has just agreed to a tougher response and national regulations to prevent new marine pests coming into our waters.
We’ve argued for a greater focus on the eradication of new and emerging invasive species in the current NSW pest animal management review.
Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce was only one of a very impressive list of winners recognised for making a major contribution to protecting Australia from dangerous new invasive species.
A year after we exposed just how easy it is to illegally import banned weed seeds into Australia via the internet one international company still doesn’t get the picture, and is continuing to send prohibited seeds into the country.
A new seven-year invasive species plan being drawn up by the NSW Government looks good on paper, but we have a few reservations. You’ve got until October 2 to make a submission on the draft plan.
Treating feral deer as game rather than pests. The potential for goat farming to create major landscape degradation. Zero policy on how to tackle red-eared slider turtles. These are just some of the issues we raised recently at a workshop put on by NSW’s Natural Resources Commission.
Moves by federal and state governments to change the way Australia manages high impact pests and diseases has set our alarm bells ringing. Are our governments looking at hoisting the white flag on all but a few popular causes?
New moves to make Australian agriculture more competitive could have a few positive knock-on effects for the environment.
Labor leader Bill Shorten outlined his vision for the party’s future direction at its national conference in July, but amid all the debate the party almost overlooked one of the biggest threats to Australia’s environment – invasive species.
Want a quick wrap-up of invasive species issues across Australia? Then check out our new State Updates.
A landmark Senate inquiry report released this month sets a strong new direction to prevent new weeds, pests and diseases.
A concerned supporter sent us this email exchange after seeing privet hedges featured at a private garden and function centre on the NSW South Coast.
State governments have told the Senate inquiry into environmental biosecurity that the system is failing.
A new global survey shows that new pasture plants such as grasses present a substantial weed risk yet these plants are still widely developed and sold in Australia with little regulation from government.
A ‘top six on the richter scale’ list of high priority threats to the environment provided to the Senate biosecurity inquiry begs many more questions than it answers.
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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.
