The Tasmanian government must develop a comprehensive feral deer management strategy that reduces the destructive impacts of deer and protects the environment and farmers.
The coronavirus pandemic has shown the need to act hard and fast when new diseases emerge, the same approach has to be taken on invasive species.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Could a single, desexed cat wipe out an entire colony of breeding fairy terns?
The Victorian government has an opportunity to make huge inroads into the impacts of feral cats, but it can only do so if changes are made to the regulations governing the use of traps in that state.
Feral deer are destroying years of conservation work restoring local bushland.
Remotely controlled gates are being used to trap feral pigs in far northwest Victoria.
In 2008 there was a strong public outcry against the proposal by a cat breeder to import savannah cats – a hybrid of domestic cats and African servals (Felis catus X Leptailurus serval).
Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
The Tasmanian government must develop a comprehensive feral deer management strategy that reduces the destructive impacts of deer and protects the environment and farmers.
The coronavirus pandemic has shown the need to act hard and fast when new diseases emerge, the same approach has to be taken on invasive species.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Could a single, desexed cat wipe out an entire colony of breeding fairy terns?
The Victorian government has an opportunity to make huge inroads into the impacts of feral cats, but it can only do so if changes are made to the regulations governing the use of traps in that state.
Feral deer are destroying years of conservation work restoring local bushland.
Remotely controlled gates are being used to trap feral pigs in far northwest Victoria.
In 2008 there was a strong public outcry against the proposal by a cat breeder to import savannah cats – a hybrid of domestic cats and African servals (Felis catus X Leptailurus serval).
Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
The Tasmanian government must develop a comprehensive feral deer management strategy that reduces the destructive impacts of deer and protects the environment and farmers.
The coronavirus pandemic has shown the need to act hard and fast when new diseases emerge, the same approach has to be taken on invasive species.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Could a single, desexed cat wipe out an entire colony of breeding fairy terns?
The Victorian government has an opportunity to make huge inroads into the impacts of feral cats, but it can only do so if changes are made to the regulations governing the use of traps in that state.
Feral deer are destroying years of conservation work restoring local bushland.
Remotely controlled gates are being used to trap feral pigs in far northwest Victoria.
In 2008 there was a strong public outcry against the proposal by a cat breeder to import savannah cats – a hybrid of domestic cats and African servals (Felis catus X Leptailurus serval).
Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
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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.
