The Invasive Species Council celebrates 20 years
30 May, 2022
Sparked by the book Feral Future, the Invasive Species Council is now Australia’s lead organisation dedicated to tackling invasive species.
Sparked by the book Feral Future, the Invasive Species Council is now Australia’s lead organisation dedicated to tackling invasive species.
The 2022 federal election has been labelled a “greenslide”, with Australians turning out to vote for action on climate change and the environment.
As the Invasive Species Council celebrates 20 years, a major milestone was achieved – we co-hosted Australia’s second ever Biosecurity Symposium
Today’s announcement by Labor to dedicate $24.8 million to tackle yellow crazy ant infestations in Cairns and Townsville regions if it wins the next federal election would bring much needed relief to northern Queensland from this destructive invasive pest.
The Coalition’s announcement of $3 million for the next 12 months of the yellow crazy eradication program is welcome, as federal funding for the program will run out in June.
Territory residents and leading invasive species experts have described Federal Labor’s commitment today to a package of $9.8 million in funding for jobs tackling gamba
Five national conservation groups launched a report called Averting Extinctions.
The infestations are so severe in the region they are now entering people’s homes and backyards and decimating local wildlife.
In a setback to Australia’s iconic Wet Tropic World Heritage Area, the federal budget has failed to explicitly fund the successful yellow crazy ant control program run by the Wet Tropics Management Authority in Cairns.
A state action plan released last week by the Victorian Government acknowledges the devastating impact feral deer have on the state’s environment. Yet feral deer continue to be protected by law in Victoria as a game species for hunting.
These findings are part of the ANAO report Management of Threatened Species and Ecological Communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 tabled today in the Australian Parliament.
There’s a federal election slated for May this year, and we have one word at the top of our priority list.
Our election guide to what needs to be done to tackle the #1 threat to our environment.
It’s been five years since we nearly lost funding to control these dangerous ants.
And, for the first time, we have also stripped a past winner of their award.
Sparked by the book Feral Future, the Invasive Species Council is now Australia’s lead organisation dedicated to tackling invasive species.
The 2022 federal election has been labelled a “greenslide”, with Australians turning out to vote for action on climate change and the environment.
As the Invasive Species Council celebrates 20 years, a major milestone was achieved – we co-hosted Australia’s second ever Biosecurity Symposium
Today’s announcement by Labor to dedicate $24.8 million to tackle yellow crazy ant infestations in Cairns and Townsville regions if it wins the next federal election would bring much needed relief to northern Queensland from this destructive invasive pest.
The Coalition’s announcement of $3 million for the next 12 months of the yellow crazy eradication program is welcome, as federal funding for the program will run out in June.
Territory residents and leading invasive species experts have described Federal Labor’s commitment today to a package of $9.8 million in funding for jobs tackling gamba
Five national conservation groups launched a report called Averting Extinctions.
The infestations are so severe in the region they are now entering people’s homes and backyards and decimating local wildlife.
In a setback to Australia’s iconic Wet Tropic World Heritage Area, the federal budget has failed to explicitly fund the successful yellow crazy ant control program run by the Wet Tropics Management Authority in Cairns.
A state action plan released last week by the Victorian Government acknowledges the devastating impact feral deer have on the state’s environment. Yet feral deer continue to be protected by law in Victoria as a game species for hunting.
These findings are part of the ANAO report Management of Threatened Species and Ecological Communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 tabled today in the Australian Parliament.
There’s a federal election slated for May this year, and we have one word at the top of our priority list.
Our election guide to what needs to be done to tackle the #1 threat to our environment.
It’s been five years since we nearly lost funding to control these dangerous ants.
And, for the first time, we have also stripped a past winner of their award.
Sparked by the book Feral Future, the Invasive Species Council is now Australia’s lead organisation dedicated to tackling invasive species.
The 2022 federal election has been labelled a “greenslide”, with Australians turning out to vote for action on climate change and the environment.
As the Invasive Species Council celebrates 20 years, a major milestone was achieved – we co-hosted Australia’s second ever Biosecurity Symposium
Today’s announcement by Labor to dedicate $24.8 million to tackle yellow crazy ant infestations in Cairns and Townsville regions if it wins the next federal election would bring much needed relief to northern Queensland from this destructive invasive pest.
The Coalition’s announcement of $3 million for the next 12 months of the yellow crazy eradication program is welcome, as federal funding for the program will run out in June.
Territory residents and leading invasive species experts have described Federal Labor’s commitment today to a package of $9.8 million in funding for jobs tackling gamba
Five national conservation groups launched a report called Averting Extinctions.
The infestations are so severe in the region they are now entering people’s homes and backyards and decimating local wildlife.
In a setback to Australia’s iconic Wet Tropic World Heritage Area, the federal budget has failed to explicitly fund the successful yellow crazy ant control program run by the Wet Tropics Management Authority in Cairns.
A state action plan released last week by the Victorian Government acknowledges the devastating impact feral deer have on the state’s environment. Yet feral deer continue to be protected by law in Victoria as a game species for hunting.
These findings are part of the ANAO report Management of Threatened Species and Ecological Communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 tabled today in the Australian Parliament.
There’s a federal election slated for May this year, and we have one word at the top of our priority list.
Our election guide to what needs to be done to tackle the #1 threat to our environment.
It’s been five years since we nearly lost funding to control these dangerous ants.
And, for the first time, we have also stripped a past winner of their award.
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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.