The Invasive Species Council welcomes the announcement by newly elected Independent MLA Thomas Emerson that the Australian Capital Territory government will increase the number of national parks rangers to work on environmental conservation and invasive species management.
With Christmas and school holidays just around the corner, families and holidaymakers in northern NSW and South-East Queensland are being urged to take action against one of Australia’s most destructive pests. The Invasive Species Council is calling on local communities to join the fight against fire ants and make a lasting impact this holiday season.
Norfolk Island is a green jewel in the vast Pacific ocean – a unique place of biodiversity with species found nowhere else in the world, a fascinating history and distinct culture.
Leaving a gift in your Will to the Invasive Species Council is a powerful way to ensure a wildlife revival in Australia and a future-proof nature.
The Symposium provided the ideal platform to explore how to transform Australia’s biosecurity systems to better protect our economy, environment and way of life.
The Invasive Species Council congratulates three deserving winners of the prestigious Froggatt Award, given to those who have made a major contribution to protecting Australia’s native plants and animals, ecosystems and people from dangerous new invasive species.
Experts warn a lack of regulation in the garden industry is seeing weedy plants, that can easily be bought in nurseries or online, ‘suffocate’ our native waterways and bushland, with urgent calls for action to prevent more irreversible damage.
The Invasive Species Council has issued an urgent call to boost funding in the fire ant suppression zone following the alarming discovery of nests on the Sunshine Coast at Nirimba.
Recently I visited lungtalanana island, once called Clarke Island, with the mob from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. They’re undertaking a cultural restoration project on the
Analysis by the Biodiversity Council shows that if all pet cats were kept securely contained by their owners it would save hundreds of human lives, millions of native animals and billions of dollars each year
Buffel fuelled wildfires affect all stakeholders, they put lives at risk and significantly impact the environment, culture, health, tourism, the arts, land managers and emerging economies.
Northern Queensland’s delicate ecosystems hang in the balance – their future under threat from ravenous supercolonies of yellow crazy ants. To deal with the problem, we first need to identify any locations the ants have spread to. You can help! Join the Bug Hunt and help our bug-ologists track invasive and at-risk native insects in Australia.
Cats have contributed to the extinction of 27 of Australia’s native animals, including the Yallara (lesser bilby) and the paradise parrot. Both species are now lost from our memories forever. Now, ISC is working with Thylation — the group behind the Felixer to supply local land managers with innovative new devices that use artificial intelligence to control feral cats and save Australia’s threatened species.
Fire ants are on the march across Australia. Here are 8 facts about them you should know.
Unfortunately the lofty promise of the National Biosecurity Strategy is at risk.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the announcement by newly elected Independent MLA Thomas Emerson that the Australian Capital Territory government will increase the number of national parks rangers to work on environmental conservation and invasive species management.
With Christmas and school holidays just around the corner, families and holidaymakers in northern NSW and South-East Queensland are being urged to take action against one of Australia’s most destructive pests. The Invasive Species Council is calling on local communities to join the fight against fire ants and make a lasting impact this holiday season.
Norfolk Island is a green jewel in the vast Pacific ocean – a unique place of biodiversity with species found nowhere else in the world, a fascinating history and distinct culture.
Leaving a gift in your Will to the Invasive Species Council is a powerful way to ensure a wildlife revival in Australia and a future-proof nature.
The Symposium provided the ideal platform to explore how to transform Australia’s biosecurity systems to better protect our economy, environment and way of life.
The Invasive Species Council congratulates three deserving winners of the prestigious Froggatt Award, given to those who have made a major contribution to protecting Australia’s native plants and animals, ecosystems and people from dangerous new invasive species.
Experts warn a lack of regulation in the garden industry is seeing weedy plants, that can easily be bought in nurseries or online, ‘suffocate’ our native waterways and bushland, with urgent calls for action to prevent more irreversible damage.
The Invasive Species Council has issued an urgent call to boost funding in the fire ant suppression zone following the alarming discovery of nests on the Sunshine Coast at Nirimba.
Recently I visited lungtalanana island, once called Clarke Island, with the mob from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. They’re undertaking a cultural restoration project on the
Analysis by the Biodiversity Council shows that if all pet cats were kept securely contained by their owners it would save hundreds of human lives, millions of native animals and billions of dollars each year
Buffel fuelled wildfires affect all stakeholders, they put lives at risk and significantly impact the environment, culture, health, tourism, the arts, land managers and emerging economies.
Northern Queensland’s delicate ecosystems hang in the balance – their future under threat from ravenous supercolonies of yellow crazy ants. To deal with the problem, we first need to identify any locations the ants have spread to. You can help! Join the Bug Hunt and help our bug-ologists track invasive and at-risk native insects in Australia.
Cats have contributed to the extinction of 27 of Australia’s native animals, including the Yallara (lesser bilby) and the paradise parrot. Both species are now lost from our memories forever. Now, ISC is working with Thylation — the group behind the Felixer to supply local land managers with innovative new devices that use artificial intelligence to control feral cats and save Australia’s threatened species.
Fire ants are on the march across Australia. Here are 8 facts about them you should know.
Unfortunately the lofty promise of the National Biosecurity Strategy is at risk.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the announcement by newly elected Independent MLA Thomas Emerson that the Australian Capital Territory government will increase the number of national parks rangers to work on environmental conservation and invasive species management.
With Christmas and school holidays just around the corner, families and holidaymakers in northern NSW and South-East Queensland are being urged to take action against one of Australia’s most destructive pests. The Invasive Species Council is calling on local communities to join the fight against fire ants and make a lasting impact this holiday season.
Norfolk Island is a green jewel in the vast Pacific ocean – a unique place of biodiversity with species found nowhere else in the world, a fascinating history and distinct culture.
Leaving a gift in your Will to the Invasive Species Council is a powerful way to ensure a wildlife revival in Australia and a future-proof nature.
The Symposium provided the ideal platform to explore how to transform Australia’s biosecurity systems to better protect our economy, environment and way of life.
The Invasive Species Council congratulates three deserving winners of the prestigious Froggatt Award, given to those who have made a major contribution to protecting Australia’s native plants and animals, ecosystems and people from dangerous new invasive species.
Experts warn a lack of regulation in the garden industry is seeing weedy plants, that can easily be bought in nurseries or online, ‘suffocate’ our native waterways and bushland, with urgent calls for action to prevent more irreversible damage.
The Invasive Species Council has issued an urgent call to boost funding in the fire ant suppression zone following the alarming discovery of nests on the Sunshine Coast at Nirimba.
Recently I visited lungtalanana island, once called Clarke Island, with the mob from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. They’re undertaking a cultural restoration project on the
Analysis by the Biodiversity Council shows that if all pet cats were kept securely contained by their owners it would save hundreds of human lives, millions of native animals and billions of dollars each year
Buffel fuelled wildfires affect all stakeholders, they put lives at risk and significantly impact the environment, culture, health, tourism, the arts, land managers and emerging economies.
Northern Queensland’s delicate ecosystems hang in the balance – their future under threat from ravenous supercolonies of yellow crazy ants. To deal with the problem, we first need to identify any locations the ants have spread to. You can help! Join the Bug Hunt and help our bug-ologists track invasive and at-risk native insects in Australia.
Cats have contributed to the extinction of 27 of Australia’s native animals, including the Yallara (lesser bilby) and the paradise parrot. Both species are now lost from our memories forever. Now, ISC is working with Thylation — the group behind the Felixer to supply local land managers with innovative new devices that use artificial intelligence to control feral cats and save Australia’s threatened species.
Fire ants are on the march across Australia. Here are 8 facts about them you should know.
Unfortunately the lofty promise of the National Biosecurity Strategy is at risk.
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Our protected areas are being trashed, trampled, choked and polluted by an onslaught of invaders. Invasive species are already the overwhelming driver of our animal extinction rate, and are expected to cause 75 of the next 100 extinctions.
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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.
