Ahead of a crucial meeting of federal, state and territory agricultural ministers in Perth tomorrow, our analysis indicates ministers will agree to an underfunded fire ant eradication program.
This highly critical report should be a wake-up call for the Queensland government. Invasive species action has been ad-hoc and underfunded for too long.
An alliance of environment, agriculture, industry and land management groups are calling for urgent action on Australia’s fire ant outbreak.
A secret report finally made public today, thanks to campaigning by the Invasive Species Council, reveals Australia’s inadequate response to fire ants.
WA community group Friends of the Fitzroy has won a Froggatt Award for uniting land managers, keyboard weeders and AI.
Steve Taylor has been awarded a Froggatt Award for championing a new way of mapping invasive plants across the ACT.
The flowers of a rubber vine are annoyingly pretty. But its vanity is also the secret to its downfall along the Fitzroy River in Western Australia.
Removal of 711 deer from the Walls of Jerusalem is critically important to protect Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Australia needs an ongoing, sustainable source of funding to improve our biosecurity system so it can protect our environment.
We visited Kosciuszko National Park with Penny Sharpe, NSW’s new environment minister, where we face rising feral horse numbers.
In the lead-up to World Biodiversity Day on 22 May, the Invasive Species Council has reviewed recent research showing Australia has been averaging at least 4.5 probable extinctions every decade since the 1960s. More than previously thought.
The federal budget has taken important steps, but more work is needed to ensure key sectors are paying for the biosecurity risks they create.
The federal government’s own Threatened Species Scientific Committee have sounded the alarm bell on the impacts of feral horses on Australia’s threatened native wildlife.
Efforts to restore lost wildlife and eradicate feral cats from the Bass Strait island lungtalanana have been given a boost with the arrival of four cat grooming traps.
In the leadup to the federal budget a new report from Frontier Economics has highlighted the range of funding measures the Australian government could deploy to strengthen
Ahead of a crucial meeting of federal, state and territory agricultural ministers in Perth tomorrow, our analysis indicates ministers will agree to an underfunded fire ant eradication program.
This highly critical report should be a wake-up call for the Queensland government. Invasive species action has been ad-hoc and underfunded for too long.
An alliance of environment, agriculture, industry and land management groups are calling for urgent action on Australia’s fire ant outbreak.
A secret report finally made public today, thanks to campaigning by the Invasive Species Council, reveals Australia’s inadequate response to fire ants.
WA community group Friends of the Fitzroy has won a Froggatt Award for uniting land managers, keyboard weeders and AI.
Steve Taylor has been awarded a Froggatt Award for championing a new way of mapping invasive plants across the ACT.
The flowers of a rubber vine are annoyingly pretty. But its vanity is also the secret to its downfall along the Fitzroy River in Western Australia.
Removal of 711 deer from the Walls of Jerusalem is critically important to protect Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Australia needs an ongoing, sustainable source of funding to improve our biosecurity system so it can protect our environment.
We visited Kosciuszko National Park with Penny Sharpe, NSW’s new environment minister, where we face rising feral horse numbers.
In the lead-up to World Biodiversity Day on 22 May, the Invasive Species Council has reviewed recent research showing Australia has been averaging at least 4.5 probable extinctions every decade since the 1960s. More than previously thought.
The federal budget has taken important steps, but more work is needed to ensure key sectors are paying for the biosecurity risks they create.
The federal government’s own Threatened Species Scientific Committee have sounded the alarm bell on the impacts of feral horses on Australia’s threatened native wildlife.
Efforts to restore lost wildlife and eradicate feral cats from the Bass Strait island lungtalanana have been given a boost with the arrival of four cat grooming traps.
In the leadup to the federal budget a new report from Frontier Economics has highlighted the range of funding measures the Australian government could deploy to strengthen
Ahead of a crucial meeting of federal, state and territory agricultural ministers in Perth tomorrow, our analysis indicates ministers will agree to an underfunded fire ant eradication program.
This highly critical report should be a wake-up call for the Queensland government. Invasive species action has been ad-hoc and underfunded for too long.
An alliance of environment, agriculture, industry and land management groups are calling for urgent action on Australia’s fire ant outbreak.
A secret report finally made public today, thanks to campaigning by the Invasive Species Council, reveals Australia’s inadequate response to fire ants.
WA community group Friends of the Fitzroy has won a Froggatt Award for uniting land managers, keyboard weeders and AI.
Steve Taylor has been awarded a Froggatt Award for championing a new way of mapping invasive plants across the ACT.
The flowers of a rubber vine are annoyingly pretty. But its vanity is also the secret to its downfall along the Fitzroy River in Western Australia.
Removal of 711 deer from the Walls of Jerusalem is critically important to protect Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Australia needs an ongoing, sustainable source of funding to improve our biosecurity system so it can protect our environment.
We visited Kosciuszko National Park with Penny Sharpe, NSW’s new environment minister, where we face rising feral horse numbers.
In the lead-up to World Biodiversity Day on 22 May, the Invasive Species Council has reviewed recent research showing Australia has been averaging at least 4.5 probable extinctions every decade since the 1960s. More than previously thought.
The federal budget has taken important steps, but more work is needed to ensure key sectors are paying for the biosecurity risks they create.
The federal government’s own Threatened Species Scientific Committee have sounded the alarm bell on the impacts of feral horses on Australia’s threatened native wildlife.
Efforts to restore lost wildlife and eradicate feral cats from the Bass Strait island lungtalanana have been given a boost with the arrival of four cat grooming traps.
In the leadup to the federal budget a new report from Frontier Economics has highlighted the range of funding measures the Australian government could deploy to strengthen
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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.
