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.
The harm and impact of invasive species and disease is having a significant impact on Victoria’s agricultural economy as well as the natural environment and community safety and well-being. While there are flaws in Victoria’s current system of managing invasive weeds and pests, hopefully these will start to be addressed through this biosecurity strategy.
Environmental and First Nations organisations have written to UNESCO, the United Nations body responsible for World Heritage sites, seeking intervention on the growing impacts of feral deer in and around the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA).
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
If left unchecked, red imported fire ants and yellow crazy ants will impact our health, food systems and lifestyle. They will also kill and destroy the habitat of our cassowaries, platypus, echidnas, turtles, frogs and so many more native species. Please act today.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Urge federal election candidates to take bold action on invasive species by supporting science-backed policies that make a real difference. Get your writing kit now.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
If left unchecked, red imported fire ants and yellow crazy ants will impact our health, food systems and lifestyle. They will also kill and destroy the habitat of our cassowaries, platypus, echidnas, turtles, frogs and so many more native species. Please act today.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
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.
The harm and impact of invasive species and disease is having a significant impact on Victoria’s agricultural economy as well as the natural environment and community safety and well-being. While there are flaws in Victoria’s current system of managing invasive weeds and pests, hopefully these will start to be addressed through this biosecurity strategy.
Environmental and First Nations organisations have written to UNESCO, the United Nations body responsible for World Heritage sites, seeking intervention on the growing impacts of feral deer in and around the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA).
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
If left unchecked, red imported fire ants and yellow crazy ants will impact our health, food systems and lifestyle. They will also kill and destroy the habitat of our cassowaries, platypus, echidnas, turtles, frogs and so many more native species. Please act today.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Urge federal election candidates to take bold action on invasive species by supporting science-backed policies that make a real difference. Get your writing kit now.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
If left unchecked, red imported fire ants and yellow crazy ants will impact our health, food systems and lifestyle. They will also kill and destroy the habitat of our cassowaries, platypus, echidnas, turtles, frogs and so many more native species. Please act today.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
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.
The harm and impact of invasive species and disease is having a significant impact on Victoria’s agricultural economy as well as the natural environment and community safety and well-being. While there are flaws in Victoria’s current system of managing invasive weeds and pests, hopefully these will start to be addressed through this biosecurity strategy.
Environmental and First Nations organisations have written to UNESCO, the United Nations body responsible for World Heritage sites, seeking intervention on the growing impacts of feral deer in and around the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA).
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
340 million native mammals, birds and reptiles are killed by roaming pet cats every year in Australia. We can’t change the nature of cats, but we can change the culture that allows pet cats to roam and kill.
If left unchecked, red imported fire ants and yellow crazy ants will impact our health, food systems and lifestyle. They will also kill and destroy the habitat of our cassowaries, platypus, echidnas, turtles, frogs and so many more native species. Please act today.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Urge federal election candidates to take bold action on invasive species by supporting science-backed policies that make a real difference. Get your writing kit now.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
If left unchecked, red imported fire ants and yellow crazy ants will impact our health, food systems and lifestyle. They will also kill and destroy the habitat of our cassowaries, platypus, echidnas, turtles, frogs and so many more native species. Please act today.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
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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.
