The Invasive Species Council has obtained and released a government report card that was blocked from public release, revealing feral deer are spreading across Australia, with governments failing to contain their range or keep pace with their growing impacts.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed Tasmania’s new plan to tackle feral deer around towns and communities, but warned the funding and lack of firm eradication targets fall well short of what is needed to stop growing deer populations that are threatening motorists, damaging farms and spreading into the environment.
There probably aren’t many political strategists sitting around campaign headquarters talking about feral deer. Perhaps they should be.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Tasmanian government’s frank assessment that its current approach to feral deer is not working, saying the review of the state’s deer management plan is an opportunity to finally bring rising deer numbers under control.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed an additional $1.7 million from the Victorian government for feral deer control across Melbourne’s outer east, following growing community concern about deer numbers and their impacts.
A new community deer coordinator trial in western Victoria offers a blueprint for tackling the state’s growing feral deer problem – while exposing how Victoria’s outdated protection of deer as a game species is holding back practical control efforts.
The Invasive Species Council has today released major new economic modelling showing feral deer could cost Tasmania up to $1.4 billion over the next 30 years unless governments dramatically scale up control efforts.
The Invasive Species Council is urging residents and landholders in South Australia’s Murray Region to be on high alert and immediately report any sightings of feral Sambar deer, following recent confirmed reports of the destructive pest in the area.
A Victorian landholder says she has been blocked from controlling invasive hog deer on her property due to restrictive and outdated state laws.
Victoria’s natural environment will suffer and communities will be left to bear the cost of worsening invasive species threats after the state budget entrenched cuts to frontline roles and failed to deliver meaningful new investment in pest control.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the incoming Victorian Ministry, urging the Allan Government to use the Cabinet reshuffle as a circuit breaker moment to tackle the state’s growing invasive species crisis.
Farmers, conservationists and community advocates have formed a new alliance to push for action on invasive species ahead of the November Victorian election, warning government cuts to frontline programs have left the state dangerously exposed to exploding pest populations.
Deer-related car crashes in Tasmania have surged by more than 160 per cent in five years, with insurance claims costs rising by more than 330 per cent – prompting fresh calls for urgent action to rein in the state’s booming feral deer population.
South Australia is on the verge of achieving something no other mainland state has done – the eradication of a well-established invasive vertebrate. More than 28,400 feral deer have already been removed under the state’s nation-leading program, and eradication is now within reach.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed new federal funding to support feral deer management in South Australia, saying it’s an encouraging boost for the state’s ambitious eradication effort – but more investment is urgently needed to finish the job.
The Invasive Species Council has obtained and released a government report card that was blocked from public release, revealing feral deer are spreading across Australia, with governments failing to contain their range or keep pace with their growing impacts.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed Tasmania’s new plan to tackle feral deer around towns and communities, but warned the funding and lack of firm eradication targets fall well short of what is needed to stop growing deer populations that are threatening motorists, damaging farms and spreading into the environment.
There probably aren’t many political strategists sitting around campaign headquarters talking about feral deer. Perhaps they should be.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Tasmanian government’s frank assessment that its current approach to feral deer is not working, saying the review of the state’s deer management plan is an opportunity to finally bring rising deer numbers under control.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed an additional $1.7 million from the Victorian government for feral deer control across Melbourne’s outer east, following growing community concern about deer numbers and their impacts.
A new community deer coordinator trial in western Victoria offers a blueprint for tackling the state’s growing feral deer problem – while exposing how Victoria’s outdated protection of deer as a game species is holding back practical control efforts.
The Invasive Species Council has today released major new economic modelling showing feral deer could cost Tasmania up to $1.4 billion over the next 30 years unless governments dramatically scale up control efforts.
The Invasive Species Council is urging residents and landholders in South Australia’s Murray Region to be on high alert and immediately report any sightings of feral Sambar deer, following recent confirmed reports of the destructive pest in the area.
A Victorian landholder says she has been blocked from controlling invasive hog deer on her property due to restrictive and outdated state laws.
Victoria’s natural environment will suffer and communities will be left to bear the cost of worsening invasive species threats after the state budget entrenched cuts to frontline roles and failed to deliver meaningful new investment in pest control.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the incoming Victorian Ministry, urging the Allan Government to use the Cabinet reshuffle as a circuit breaker moment to tackle the state’s growing invasive species crisis.
Farmers, conservationists and community advocates have formed a new alliance to push for action on invasive species ahead of the November Victorian election, warning government cuts to frontline programs have left the state dangerously exposed to exploding pest populations.
Deer-related car crashes in Tasmania have surged by more than 160 per cent in five years, with insurance claims costs rising by more than 330 per cent – prompting fresh calls for urgent action to rein in the state’s booming feral deer population.
South Australia is on the verge of achieving something no other mainland state has done – the eradication of a well-established invasive vertebrate. More than 28,400 feral deer have already been removed under the state’s nation-leading program, and eradication is now within reach.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed new federal funding to support feral deer management in South Australia, saying it’s an encouraging boost for the state’s ambitious eradication effort – but more investment is urgently needed to finish the job.
The Invasive Species Council has obtained and released a government report card that was blocked from public release, revealing feral deer are spreading across Australia, with governments failing to contain their range or keep pace with their growing impacts.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed Tasmania’s new plan to tackle feral deer around towns and communities, but warned the funding and lack of firm eradication targets fall well short of what is needed to stop growing deer populations that are threatening motorists, damaging farms and spreading into the environment.
There probably aren’t many political strategists sitting around campaign headquarters talking about feral deer. Perhaps they should be.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Tasmanian government’s frank assessment that its current approach to feral deer is not working, saying the review of the state’s deer management plan is an opportunity to finally bring rising deer numbers under control.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed an additional $1.7 million from the Victorian government for feral deer control across Melbourne’s outer east, following growing community concern about deer numbers and their impacts.
A new community deer coordinator trial in western Victoria offers a blueprint for tackling the state’s growing feral deer problem – while exposing how Victoria’s outdated protection of deer as a game species is holding back practical control efforts.
The Invasive Species Council has today released major new economic modelling showing feral deer could cost Tasmania up to $1.4 billion over the next 30 years unless governments dramatically scale up control efforts.
The Invasive Species Council is urging residents and landholders in South Australia’s Murray Region to be on high alert and immediately report any sightings of feral Sambar deer, following recent confirmed reports of the destructive pest in the area.
A Victorian landholder says she has been blocked from controlling invasive hog deer on her property due to restrictive and outdated state laws.
Victoria’s natural environment will suffer and communities will be left to bear the cost of worsening invasive species threats after the state budget entrenched cuts to frontline roles and failed to deliver meaningful new investment in pest control.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the incoming Victorian Ministry, urging the Allan Government to use the Cabinet reshuffle as a circuit breaker moment to tackle the state’s growing invasive species crisis.
Farmers, conservationists and community advocates have formed a new alliance to push for action on invasive species ahead of the November Victorian election, warning government cuts to frontline programs have left the state dangerously exposed to exploding pest populations.
Deer-related car crashes in Tasmania have surged by more than 160 per cent in five years, with insurance claims costs rising by more than 330 per cent – prompting fresh calls for urgent action to rein in the state’s booming feral deer population.
South Australia is on the verge of achieving something no other mainland state has done – the eradication of a well-established invasive vertebrate. More than 28,400 feral deer have already been removed under the state’s nation-leading program, and eradication is now within reach.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed new federal funding to support feral deer management in South Australia, saying it’s an encouraging boost for the state’s ambitious eradication effort – but more investment is urgently needed to finish the job.
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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.
