New DNA analysis has revealed feral cats are eating significantly more native mammals than traditional methods have detected. The Invasive Species Council says the findings reinforce the urgent need for governments to accelerate feral cat control across Australia.
For years, farmers and feral animal experts have been asking the same thing: why spend time and money controlling feral deer or pigs if the property next door does nothing? They’re right.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW government’s decision to issue a General Biosecurity Direction for pig control, requiring public and private landholders in the Walgett region to participate in a coordinated feral pig eradication program, with landholders who fail to comply facing fines of up to $220,000 for individuals and $440,000 for corporations.
The construction crews are working overtime at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary in the Australian Capital Territory. Armed with federal emergency funding, workers are assembling 16 specialised isolation pens.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a landmark $2.7 million investment from the Australian Government to complete the Dudley Peninsula Feral Cat Eradication Program on Kangaroo Island, capping off an innovative funding partnership that will deliver the world’s largest feral cat eradication ever undertaken on an inhabited island.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW Opposition’s proposed $300 million investment in invasive species management, saying regional communities will be looking for all political parties to put forward serious plans to tackle one of the state’s biggest environmental and agricultural challenges ahead of the next election.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s declaration that feral pigs have been eradicated from Kangaroo Island, describing it as one of Australia’s most significant invasive species success stories and a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when governments back science-based action.
The Invasive Species Council is encouraging the state government to make the most of the opportunity to remove feral deer from Deep Creek National Park, as part of its recovery plan from the bushfire that burnt thousands of hectares earlier this year.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Victorian Government’s decision to permit the use of Felixer grooming traps for feral cat control – calling it a landmark step that will turbo-charge efforts to protect threatened wildlife and give long-stalled island eradication projects their best chance of success.
Tasmania is facing a feral deer crisis, as new population numbers show a dramatic increase of 33% in just 5 years, according to the government’s survey report released today.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed a new application to import Bengal cats – a hybrid of Asian leopard cats and domestic cats – warning it would mean deliberately unleashing more genetic monsters into a country with wildlife already being devastated by feral and roaming pet cats.
The domestic cat (Felis catus) is a popular pet and companion animal across the world. Ownership is on the rise in Australia, with one in
The Invasive Species Council has today welcomed the release of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service’s new 10-year invasive species strategy.
A landmark study by UNSW released today has revealed the extraordinary impact of removing feral cats and foxes from a South Australian desert reserve – with small mammal populations inside the predator-free area up to 30 times higher than outside.
The Victorian National Parks Association, Invasive Species Council and Environment East Gippsland have slammed the Allan Government’s decision to open 130,000 hectares of Victoria’s Errinundra and Snowy River National Parks to seasonal deer hunting.
New DNA analysis has revealed feral cats are eating significantly more native mammals than traditional methods have detected. The Invasive Species Council says the findings reinforce the urgent need for governments to accelerate feral cat control across Australia.
For years, farmers and feral animal experts have been asking the same thing: why spend time and money controlling feral deer or pigs if the property next door does nothing? They’re right.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW government’s decision to issue a General Biosecurity Direction for pig control, requiring public and private landholders in the Walgett region to participate in a coordinated feral pig eradication program, with landholders who fail to comply facing fines of up to $220,000 for individuals and $440,000 for corporations.
The construction crews are working overtime at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary in the Australian Capital Territory. Armed with federal emergency funding, workers are assembling 16 specialised isolation pens.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a landmark $2.7 million investment from the Australian Government to complete the Dudley Peninsula Feral Cat Eradication Program on Kangaroo Island, capping off an innovative funding partnership that will deliver the world’s largest feral cat eradication ever undertaken on an inhabited island.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW Opposition’s proposed $300 million investment in invasive species management, saying regional communities will be looking for all political parties to put forward serious plans to tackle one of the state’s biggest environmental and agricultural challenges ahead of the next election.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s declaration that feral pigs have been eradicated from Kangaroo Island, describing it as one of Australia’s most significant invasive species success stories and a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when governments back science-based action.
The Invasive Species Council is encouraging the state government to make the most of the opportunity to remove feral deer from Deep Creek National Park, as part of its recovery plan from the bushfire that burnt thousands of hectares earlier this year.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Victorian Government’s decision to permit the use of Felixer grooming traps for feral cat control – calling it a landmark step that will turbo-charge efforts to protect threatened wildlife and give long-stalled island eradication projects their best chance of success.
Tasmania is facing a feral deer crisis, as new population numbers show a dramatic increase of 33% in just 5 years, according to the government’s survey report released today.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed a new application to import Bengal cats – a hybrid of Asian leopard cats and domestic cats – warning it would mean deliberately unleashing more genetic monsters into a country with wildlife already being devastated by feral and roaming pet cats.
The domestic cat (Felis catus) is a popular pet and companion animal across the world. Ownership is on the rise in Australia, with one in
The Invasive Species Council has today welcomed the release of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service’s new 10-year invasive species strategy.
A landmark study by UNSW released today has revealed the extraordinary impact of removing feral cats and foxes from a South Australian desert reserve – with small mammal populations inside the predator-free area up to 30 times higher than outside.
The Victorian National Parks Association, Invasive Species Council and Environment East Gippsland have slammed the Allan Government’s decision to open 130,000 hectares of Victoria’s Errinundra and Snowy River National Parks to seasonal deer hunting.
New DNA analysis has revealed feral cats are eating significantly more native mammals than traditional methods have detected. The Invasive Species Council says the findings reinforce the urgent need for governments to accelerate feral cat control across Australia.
For years, farmers and feral animal experts have been asking the same thing: why spend time and money controlling feral deer or pigs if the property next door does nothing? They’re right.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW government’s decision to issue a General Biosecurity Direction for pig control, requiring public and private landholders in the Walgett region to participate in a coordinated feral pig eradication program, with landholders who fail to comply facing fines of up to $220,000 for individuals and $440,000 for corporations.
The construction crews are working overtime at Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary in the Australian Capital Territory. Armed with federal emergency funding, workers are assembling 16 specialised isolation pens.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a landmark $2.7 million investment from the Australian Government to complete the Dudley Peninsula Feral Cat Eradication Program on Kangaroo Island, capping off an innovative funding partnership that will deliver the world’s largest feral cat eradication ever undertaken on an inhabited island.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW Opposition’s proposed $300 million investment in invasive species management, saying regional communities will be looking for all political parties to put forward serious plans to tackle one of the state’s biggest environmental and agricultural challenges ahead of the next election.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s declaration that feral pigs have been eradicated from Kangaroo Island, describing it as one of Australia’s most significant invasive species success stories and a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when governments back science-based action.
The Invasive Species Council is encouraging the state government to make the most of the opportunity to remove feral deer from Deep Creek National Park, as part of its recovery plan from the bushfire that burnt thousands of hectares earlier this year.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Victorian Government’s decision to permit the use of Felixer grooming traps for feral cat control – calling it a landmark step that will turbo-charge efforts to protect threatened wildlife and give long-stalled island eradication projects their best chance of success.
Tasmania is facing a feral deer crisis, as new population numbers show a dramatic increase of 33% in just 5 years, according to the government’s survey report released today.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed a new application to import Bengal cats – a hybrid of Asian leopard cats and domestic cats – warning it would mean deliberately unleashing more genetic monsters into a country with wildlife already being devastated by feral and roaming pet cats.
The domestic cat (Felis catus) is a popular pet and companion animal across the world. Ownership is on the rise in Australia, with one in
The Invasive Species Council has today welcomed the release of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service’s new 10-year invasive species strategy.
A landmark study by UNSW released today has revealed the extraordinary impact of removing feral cats and foxes from a South Australian desert reserve – with small mammal populations inside the predator-free area up to 30 times higher than outside.
The Victorian National Parks Association, Invasive Species Council and Environment East Gippsland have slammed the Allan Government’s decision to open 130,000 hectares of Victoria’s Errinundra and Snowy River National Parks to seasonal deer hunting.
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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.
