A burning threat is spreading. Fire ants build their mounds like markers of invasion, pushing out native species, blinding and killing small wildlife, and turning healthy landscapes into colonies of fear. They creep through gardens, wetlands and paddocks, multiplying faster than we can respond. Ignore them now, and they will reshape Australia forever.
Your message of thanks will show that NSW stands with nature – and that protecting Kosciuszko must remain a political priority.
Feral horses are trashing and trampling alpine waterways and pushing native wildlife closer to extinction. Tell your NSW MP to end special protections for invasive species.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
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.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
Australia’s fire ant eradication program is finally working — but the funding runs out in 2027. Add your name and tell the Treasurer and every state and territory leader: finish the job.
Australians are waiting anxiously to learn whether we are about to face devastating bird flu outbreaks in our wildlife. H5 bird flu has already wiped out millions of wild birds and thousands of mammals overseas — and now it’s at our doorstep. We can’t stop this disease. But we can give our most vulnerable native species a fighting chance.
Whether it’s on your farm, in your local bush, on the road or in your own backyard, your experience with feral deer can help drive real national change.
No country on Earth has parrots like ours. Of the 56 species found in Australia, 51 live nowhere else, from the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot to the swift parrot. Yet right now, the Australian Government is considering reopening the door to live parrot imports, and the deadly diseases that could come with them.
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 horses are trashing and trampling alpine waterways and pushing native wildlife closer to extinction. Tell your NSW MP to end special protections for invasive species.
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.
Invasive species are pushing Tasmania to the brink.
Feral deer are destroying bushland. Roaming cats are killing native wildlife. And if fire ants arrive, they could trigger a wave of extinctions.
Tasmania is in crisis — but the upcoming state election is our chance to demand action.
A burning threat is spreading. Fire ants build their mounds like markers of invasion, pushing out native species, blinding and killing small wildlife, and turning healthy landscapes into colonies of fear. They creep through gardens, wetlands and paddocks, multiplying faster than we can respond. Ignore them now, and they will reshape Australia forever.
Your message of thanks will show that NSW stands with nature – and that protecting Kosciuszko must remain a political priority.
Feral horses are trashing and trampling alpine waterways and pushing native wildlife closer to extinction. Tell your NSW MP to end special protections for invasive species.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
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.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
Australia’s fire ant eradication program is finally working — but the funding runs out in 2027. Add your name and tell the Treasurer and every state and territory leader: finish the job.
Australians are waiting anxiously to learn whether we are about to face devastating bird flu outbreaks in our wildlife. H5 bird flu has already wiped out millions of wild birds and thousands of mammals overseas — and now it’s at our doorstep. We can’t stop this disease. But we can give our most vulnerable native species a fighting chance.
Whether it’s on your farm, in your local bush, on the road or in your own backyard, your experience with feral deer can help drive real national change.
No country on Earth has parrots like ours. Of the 56 species found in Australia, 51 live nowhere else, from the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot to the swift parrot. Yet right now, the Australian Government is considering reopening the door to live parrot imports, and the deadly diseases that could come with them.
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 horses are trashing and trampling alpine waterways and pushing native wildlife closer to extinction. Tell your NSW MP to end special protections for invasive species.
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.
Invasive species are pushing Tasmania to the brink.
Feral deer are destroying bushland. Roaming cats are killing native wildlife. And if fire ants arrive, they could trigger a wave of extinctions.
Tasmania is in crisis — but the upcoming state election is our chance to demand action.
A burning threat is spreading. Fire ants build their mounds like markers of invasion, pushing out native species, blinding and killing small wildlife, and turning healthy landscapes into colonies of fear. They creep through gardens, wetlands and paddocks, multiplying faster than we can respond. Ignore them now, and they will reshape Australia forever.
Your message of thanks will show that NSW stands with nature – and that protecting Kosciuszko must remain a political priority.
Feral horses are trashing and trampling alpine waterways and pushing native wildlife closer to extinction. Tell your NSW MP to end special protections for invasive species.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
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.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
Across the heart of our continent, a dull straw-green tide is taking over. Buffel grass, Tjanpi kura (bad grass), Mama Tjunpi (devil grass) is transforming our deserts into dangerous monocultures that burn hotter, faster, and more often. It’s spreading through songlines and sacred sites, choking waterways, and leaving dust where there was once life.
Australia’s fire ant eradication program is finally working — but the funding runs out in 2027. Add your name and tell the Treasurer and every state and territory leader: finish the job.
Australians are waiting anxiously to learn whether we are about to face devastating bird flu outbreaks in our wildlife. H5 bird flu has already wiped out millions of wild birds and thousands of mammals overseas — and now it’s at our doorstep. We can’t stop this disease. But we can give our most vulnerable native species a fighting chance.
Whether it’s on your farm, in your local bush, on the road or in your own backyard, your experience with feral deer can help drive real national change.
No country on Earth has parrots like ours. Of the 56 species found in Australia, 51 live nowhere else, from the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot to the swift parrot. Yet right now, the Australian Government is considering reopening the door to live parrot imports, and the deadly diseases that could come with them.
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 horses are trashing and trampling alpine waterways and pushing native wildlife closer to extinction. Tell your NSW MP to end special protections for invasive species.
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.
Invasive species are pushing Tasmania to the brink.
Feral deer are destroying bushland. Roaming cats are killing native wildlife. And if fire ants arrive, they could trigger a wave of extinctions.
Tasmania is in crisis — but the upcoming state election is our chance to demand action.
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Our protected areas are being trashed, trampled, choked and polluted by an onslaught of invaders. Invasive species are already the overwhelming driver of our animal extinction rate, and are expected to cause 75 of the next 100 extinctions.
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A silent crisis is unfolding across Australia. Every year, billions of native animals are hunted and killed by cats and foxes. Fire ants continue to spread and threaten human health. And the deadly strain of bird flu looms on the horizon. Your donation today will be used to put the invasive species threat in the media, make invasive species a government priority, ensure governments take rapid action to protect nature and our remarkable native wildlife from invasives-led extinction, death and destruction.
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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.
