In the face of an invasion meltdown
21 February, 2024
Update: This article has been amended to improve accuracy. On a recent visit to Barrington Tops National Park, Tim Low and Carol Booth experienced the
Update: This article has been amended to improve accuracy. On a recent visit to Barrington Tops National Park, Tim Low and Carol Booth experienced the
An independent review of the NSW Government’s trial of aerial shooting for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park has found that the removal of 270 feral horses was conducted without any adverse animal welfare events and in line with standard operating procedures.
The Tasmanian government must conduct a study into the enormous economic costs of feral deer after a new study found deer hunting had tiny benefits.
Ambitious South Australian feral deer eradication plan welcomed
Cats have contributed to the extinction of 27 of Australia’s native animals, including the Yallara (lesser bilby) and the paradise parrot. Both species are now lost from our memories forever. Now, ISC is working with Thylation — the group behind the Felixer to supply local land managers with innovative new devices that use artificial intelligence to control feral cats and save Australia’s threatened species.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the release today by Environment Minister Plibersek of a new national plan to tackle feral goats.
Today our native wildlife and mountain streams have had a huge win
The Invasive Species Council and Nature Conservation Council have called on the NSW government to introduce clear laws to ensure pet cats are kept safe at home in order to save millions of native animals every year. The call comes in the wake of another 48 species added to the endangered species list.
The Invasive Species Council and Biodiversity Council welcomed the federal government draft Threat Abatement Plan for Feral Cats, open for public consultation. Without serious action in Australia, we could lose native wildlife like Bilbies, Numbats, and Night Parrots. Forever.
A landmark global scientific report, released by the United Nations, has found that invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion every year.
Today’s release of a National Feral Deer Action Plan to tackle the exploding numbers of feral deer has been welcomed by the Invasive Species Council.
The important decision by the NSW Government to consider aerial control in Kosciuszko reflects that the public mood has shifted on this issue.
The long overdue release of Deer Control Plans for east and west Victoria recognise the devastating impacts feral deer are having on local environments, economies and communities.
Removal of 711 deer from the Walls of Jerusalem is critically important to protect Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area.
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.
Update: This article has been amended to improve accuracy. On a recent visit to Barrington Tops National Park, Tim Low and Carol Booth experienced the
An independent review of the NSW Government’s trial of aerial shooting for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park has found that the removal of 270 feral horses was conducted without any adverse animal welfare events and in line with standard operating procedures.
The Tasmanian government must conduct a study into the enormous economic costs of feral deer after a new study found deer hunting had tiny benefits.
Ambitious South Australian feral deer eradication plan welcomed
Cats have contributed to the extinction of 27 of Australia’s native animals, including the Yallara (lesser bilby) and the paradise parrot. Both species are now lost from our memories forever. Now, ISC is working with Thylation — the group behind the Felixer to supply local land managers with innovative new devices that use artificial intelligence to control feral cats and save Australia’s threatened species.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the release today by Environment Minister Plibersek of a new national plan to tackle feral goats.
Today our native wildlife and mountain streams have had a huge win
The Invasive Species Council and Nature Conservation Council have called on the NSW government to introduce clear laws to ensure pet cats are kept safe at home in order to save millions of native animals every year. The call comes in the wake of another 48 species added to the endangered species list.
The Invasive Species Council and Biodiversity Council welcomed the federal government draft Threat Abatement Plan for Feral Cats, open for public consultation. Without serious action in Australia, we could lose native wildlife like Bilbies, Numbats, and Night Parrots. Forever.
A landmark global scientific report, released by the United Nations, has found that invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion every year.
Today’s release of a National Feral Deer Action Plan to tackle the exploding numbers of feral deer has been welcomed by the Invasive Species Council.
The important decision by the NSW Government to consider aerial control in Kosciuszko reflects that the public mood has shifted on this issue.
The long overdue release of Deer Control Plans for east and west Victoria recognise the devastating impacts feral deer are having on local environments, economies and communities.
Removal of 711 deer from the Walls of Jerusalem is critically important to protect Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area.
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.
Update: This article has been amended to improve accuracy. On a recent visit to Barrington Tops National Park, Tim Low and Carol Booth experienced the
An independent review of the NSW Government’s trial of aerial shooting for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park has found that the removal of 270 feral horses was conducted without any adverse animal welfare events and in line with standard operating procedures.
The Tasmanian government must conduct a study into the enormous economic costs of feral deer after a new study found deer hunting had tiny benefits.
Ambitious South Australian feral deer eradication plan welcomed
Cats have contributed to the extinction of 27 of Australia’s native animals, including the Yallara (lesser bilby) and the paradise parrot. Both species are now lost from our memories forever. Now, ISC is working with Thylation — the group behind the Felixer to supply local land managers with innovative new devices that use artificial intelligence to control feral cats and save Australia’s threatened species.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the release today by Environment Minister Plibersek of a new national plan to tackle feral goats.
Today our native wildlife and mountain streams have had a huge win
The Invasive Species Council and Nature Conservation Council have called on the NSW government to introduce clear laws to ensure pet cats are kept safe at home in order to save millions of native animals every year. The call comes in the wake of another 48 species added to the endangered species list.
The Invasive Species Council and Biodiversity Council welcomed the federal government draft Threat Abatement Plan for Feral Cats, open for public consultation. Without serious action in Australia, we could lose native wildlife like Bilbies, Numbats, and Night Parrots. Forever.
A landmark global scientific report, released by the United Nations, has found that invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion every year.
Today’s release of a National Feral Deer Action Plan to tackle the exploding numbers of feral deer has been welcomed by the Invasive Species Council.
The important decision by the NSW Government to consider aerial control in Kosciuszko reflects that the public mood has shifted on this issue.
The long overdue release of Deer Control Plans for east and west Victoria recognise the devastating impacts feral deer are having on local environments, economies and communities.
Removal of 711 deer from the Walls of Jerusalem is critically important to protect Tasmania’s Wilderness World Heritage Area.
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.
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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.
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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.