We’ve just received confirmation that US fire ant expert Dr Robert Puckett will join our Fire Ants Down Under tour next month, visiting five capital Australian cities in just one week.
Early Australia Day picnickers suited up in protective clothing to give the country a taste of what’s to come if fire ants are not eradicated.
For 15 years we’ve been battling fire ant infestations in Queensland and we’re losing the fight. Unless federal, state and territory governments back eradication to the hilt all our efforts will have been wasted.
For 15 years we’ve been battling fire ant infestations in Queensland and we’re losing the fight. Unless federal, state and territory governments back eradication to the hilt all our efforts will have been wasted.
Biosecurity Queensland is on the cusp of eradicating electric ants, the only thing holding it back from full eradication is a final push that needs federal and state funding.
They call themselves Sea Spurge Remote Area Teams – SPRATS for short – and since 2007 they’ve been at the cutting-edge of ‘adventure conservation’.
A new resident has taken up residence in Melbourne’s suburbs, one that could bring with it an entirely new amphibian order.
A new resident has taken up residence in Melbourne’s suburbs, one that could bring with it an entirely new amphibian order.
Bushwalkers who have scoured Tasmania’s wild southwest coast as part of a ten-year, remote area weeding program have been awarded a national gong for their efforts.
Research confirming Melbourne waterways as breeding grounds for a dangerous new amphibian invader has earned a group of local ecologists a Froggatt Award.
There is a silent invasion taking place in Australia that could fundamentally alter our way of life.
A secret government report into Australia’s fire ant menace has warned the nation’s agricultural ministers that the nation will suffer billions of dollars in damages to people, business and the environment.
What would it be like living in an Australia overrun by infestations of red fire ants? Find out why these menacing ants represent such a huge threat at one of our upcoming fire ant forums.
What would it be like living in an Australia overrun by infestations of red fire ants? Find out why these menacing ants represent such a huge threat at one of our upcoming fire ant forums.
A program to rid Australia of yellow crazy ants has been bought back to life with the injection of $10.5 million over the next three years, but is it enough to secure Queensland’s Wet Tropics World Heritage Area from this dangerous invasive species?
