New study highlights invasive species threat to Indigenous culture
29 May, 2024
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
This is great news for our native animals and mountain streams. For the first time the number removed exceeds annual population growth, meaning we can expect a genuine reduction in the number of feral horses in the National Park.
The Invasive Species Council has called on the Australian Government to swing into immediate action to prepare for the fight against a killer bird flu turning up in Australia’s wild birds, following the announcement of the discovery of a bird flu strain on an egg farm in Victoria.
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.
While we support rehoming as one management option for feral horses, there must be strict protocols to ensure the high welfare risks involved are reduced.
A coalition of environment groups have sounded the alarm about an Australian fish, the Yalmy galaxias, which is on the brink of extinction.
New infestation of deadly fire ants found west of the Great Dividing Range in the Murray Darling Basin
There will be ‘disastrous consequences’ for Australia’s natural environment and economy if eradication is not successful
New, highly detailed aerial imagery, which has been publicly released by mapping company Airborne Logic, has revealed the extensive damage by feral horses to the alpine rivers, grasslands and mossbeds of Kosciuszko National Park.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the South Australian government’s commitment today to provide $17 million until 2027 towards the war on fire ants in south-east Queensland.
Invasive Species Council has called on all parties and candidates to make action on invasive species like feral deer, feral cats and weeds a priority.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has flagged that the federal government may intervene to ensure a zero-tolerance approach to feral horses Kosciuszko National Park if the environmental impacts remain too high.
We welcome the announcement by Minister Watt of the new Sustainable Biosecurity Funding Advisory Panel
The federal environment department is warning that iconic Australian animals like the koala, platypus, echidnas, and loggerhead turtles could be killed and injured by fire ants.
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
This is great news for our native animals and mountain streams. For the first time the number removed exceeds annual population growth, meaning we can expect a genuine reduction in the number of feral horses in the National Park.
The Invasive Species Council has called on the Australian Government to swing into immediate action to prepare for the fight against a killer bird flu turning up in Australia’s wild birds, following the announcement of the discovery of a bird flu strain on an egg farm in Victoria.
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.
While we support rehoming as one management option for feral horses, there must be strict protocols to ensure the high welfare risks involved are reduced.
A coalition of environment groups have sounded the alarm about an Australian fish, the Yalmy galaxias, which is on the brink of extinction.
New infestation of deadly fire ants found west of the Great Dividing Range in the Murray Darling Basin
There will be ‘disastrous consequences’ for Australia’s natural environment and economy if eradication is not successful
New, highly detailed aerial imagery, which has been publicly released by mapping company Airborne Logic, has revealed the extensive damage by feral horses to the alpine rivers, grasslands and mossbeds of Kosciuszko National Park.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the South Australian government’s commitment today to provide $17 million until 2027 towards the war on fire ants in south-east Queensland.
Invasive Species Council has called on all parties and candidates to make action on invasive species like feral deer, feral cats and weeds a priority.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has flagged that the federal government may intervene to ensure a zero-tolerance approach to feral horses Kosciuszko National Park if the environmental impacts remain too high.
We welcome the announcement by Minister Watt of the new Sustainable Biosecurity Funding Advisory Panel
The federal environment department is warning that iconic Australian animals like the koala, platypus, echidnas, and loggerhead turtles could be killed and injured by fire ants.
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
This is great news for our native animals and mountain streams. For the first time the number removed exceeds annual population growth, meaning we can expect a genuine reduction in the number of feral horses in the National Park.
The Invasive Species Council has called on the Australian Government to swing into immediate action to prepare for the fight against a killer bird flu turning up in Australia’s wild birds, following the announcement of the discovery of a bird flu strain on an egg farm in Victoria.
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.
While we support rehoming as one management option for feral horses, there must be strict protocols to ensure the high welfare risks involved are reduced.
A coalition of environment groups have sounded the alarm about an Australian fish, the Yalmy galaxias, which is on the brink of extinction.
New infestation of deadly fire ants found west of the Great Dividing Range in the Murray Darling Basin
There will be ‘disastrous consequences’ for Australia’s natural environment and economy if eradication is not successful
New, highly detailed aerial imagery, which has been publicly released by mapping company Airborne Logic, has revealed the extensive damage by feral horses to the alpine rivers, grasslands and mossbeds of Kosciuszko National Park.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the South Australian government’s commitment today to provide $17 million until 2027 towards the war on fire ants in south-east Queensland.
Invasive Species Council has called on all parties and candidates to make action on invasive species like feral deer, feral cats and weeds a priority.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has flagged that the federal government may intervene to ensure a zero-tolerance approach to feral horses Kosciuszko National Park if the environmental impacts remain too high.
We welcome the announcement by Minister Watt of the new Sustainable Biosecurity Funding Advisory Panel
The federal environment department is warning that iconic Australian animals like the koala, platypus, echidnas, and loggerhead turtles could be killed and injured by fire ants.
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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.