Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
Feral deer are probably Australia’s worst emerging pest problem, causing damage to the natural environment and agricultural businesses.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
8 recommendations for the Plan to be successful in mitigating the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety,
The updated Threat Abatement Plan for predation by feral cats presents a significant opportunity to curb the impacts of feral and roaming pet cats on wildlife, but only if it is adequately funded and fully implemented.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
This submission presents 101 recommendations to improve invasive species management in the state.
The Invasive Species Council strongly support the use of aerial shooting, when undertaken by highly trained professionals using standard protocols, as one of the available control methods for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
Animal welfare is important – for both introduced and native species – because of an ethical imperative to try to avoid inflicting harm on sentient animals.
Feral deer populations are rapidly growing and spreading across Victoria damaging the natural environment and causing havoc for farmers and motorists.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the development of a new Feral Deer Management Strategy to replace the Feral Deer Management Strategy 2013-18.
Tasmania needs to take a new, biosecurity-based approach to managing the growing environmental and agricultural problems posed by increasing numbers of feral deer.
The goal of any horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park must be to eliminate and restore feral horse damage through significant reduction in numbers.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
Feral deer are probably Australia’s worst emerging pest problem, causing damage to the natural environment and agricultural businesses.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
8 recommendations for the Plan to be successful in mitigating the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety,
The updated Threat Abatement Plan for predation by feral cats presents a significant opportunity to curb the impacts of feral and roaming pet cats on wildlife, but only if it is adequately funded and fully implemented.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
This submission presents 101 recommendations to improve invasive species management in the state.
The Invasive Species Council strongly support the use of aerial shooting, when undertaken by highly trained professionals using standard protocols, as one of the available control methods for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
Animal welfare is important – for both introduced and native species – because of an ethical imperative to try to avoid inflicting harm on sentient animals.
Feral deer populations are rapidly growing and spreading across Victoria damaging the natural environment and causing havoc for farmers and motorists.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the development of a new Feral Deer Management Strategy to replace the Feral Deer Management Strategy 2013-18.
Tasmania needs to take a new, biosecurity-based approach to managing the growing environmental and agricultural problems posed by increasing numbers of feral deer.
The goal of any horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park must be to eliminate and restore feral horse damage through significant reduction in numbers.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
Feral deer are probably Australia’s worst emerging pest problem, causing damage to the natural environment and agricultural businesses.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
8 recommendations for the Plan to be successful in mitigating the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety,
The updated Threat Abatement Plan for predation by feral cats presents a significant opportunity to curb the impacts of feral and roaming pet cats on wildlife, but only if it is adequately funded and fully implemented.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
This submission presents 101 recommendations to improve invasive species management in the state.
The Invasive Species Council strongly support the use of aerial shooting, when undertaken by highly trained professionals using standard protocols, as one of the available control methods for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
Animal welfare is important – for both introduced and native species – because of an ethical imperative to try to avoid inflicting harm on sentient animals.
Feral deer populations are rapidly growing and spreading across Victoria damaging the natural environment and causing havoc for farmers and motorists.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the development of a new Feral Deer Management Strategy to replace the Feral Deer Management Strategy 2013-18.
Tasmania needs to take a new, biosecurity-based approach to managing the growing environmental and agricultural problems posed by increasing numbers of feral deer.
The goal of any horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park must be to eliminate and restore feral horse damage through significant reduction in numbers.
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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.
