Sustainable biosecurity funding yet to target worst risk-creators
10 May, 2023
The federal budget has taken important steps, but more work is needed to ensure key sectors are paying for the biosecurity risks they create.
The federal budget has taken important steps, but more work is needed to ensure key sectors are paying for the biosecurity risks they create.
In mid-September, in response to allegations aired by a shock-jock on Sydney radio, the NSW environment minister announced a ban on all shooting operations in Kosciuszko National Park.
Today’s release of a draft national plan to tackle the exploding numbers of feral deer across Australia has been welcomed by the Invasive Species Council.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Albanese government’s response to the independent review of Australia’s national environmental law, but warns that zero extinctions cannot be achieved unless more work is done to fix and resource Australia’s threat abatement system.
Today’s announcement that Australia is adopting a zero extinction target as part of its Threatened Species Action Plan is very welcome news.
The 2021 State of Environment Report identifies invasive species as the most prevalent threat to Australian wildlife and the primary cause of extinction events.
The 2022 federal election has been labelled a “greenslide”, with Australians turning out to vote for action on climate change and the environment.
Five national conservation groups launched a report called Averting Extinctions.
We pay tribute to Ian Thompson, Australia’s first Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer.
A review of Australia’s EPBC Act finds it is failing to address the main threats to nature.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian Supreme Court’s decision to protect the Alpine National Park from growing horse impacts but is concerned the possibility of further legal action will delay the inevitable.
Those opposed to action on Victoria’s feral horse problem are back in court today, a last ditch effort to delay the inevitable.
Resignation of top scientists puts spotlight on refusal to take scientific advice about the environmental disaster that will unfold as a result of Snowy 2.0.
The dumping of a proposed import levy is a huge setback for Australia’s biosecurity system.
Our joint report with Monash University reveals environmentally destructive ants, bees and wasps could be hitching a ride into Australia on an international bug superhighway.
The federal budget has taken important steps, but more work is needed to ensure key sectors are paying for the biosecurity risks they create.
In mid-September, in response to allegations aired by a shock-jock on Sydney radio, the NSW environment minister announced a ban on all shooting operations in Kosciuszko National Park.
Today’s release of a draft national plan to tackle the exploding numbers of feral deer across Australia has been welcomed by the Invasive Species Council.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Albanese government’s response to the independent review of Australia’s national environmental law, but warns that zero extinctions cannot be achieved unless more work is done to fix and resource Australia’s threat abatement system.
Today’s announcement that Australia is adopting a zero extinction target as part of its Threatened Species Action Plan is very welcome news.
The 2021 State of Environment Report identifies invasive species as the most prevalent threat to Australian wildlife and the primary cause of extinction events.
The 2022 federal election has been labelled a “greenslide”, with Australians turning out to vote for action on climate change and the environment.
Five national conservation groups launched a report called Averting Extinctions.
We pay tribute to Ian Thompson, Australia’s first Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer.
A review of Australia’s EPBC Act finds it is failing to address the main threats to nature.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian Supreme Court’s decision to protect the Alpine National Park from growing horse impacts but is concerned the possibility of further legal action will delay the inevitable.
Those opposed to action on Victoria’s feral horse problem are back in court today, a last ditch effort to delay the inevitable.
Resignation of top scientists puts spotlight on refusal to take scientific advice about the environmental disaster that will unfold as a result of Snowy 2.0.
The dumping of a proposed import levy is a huge setback for Australia’s biosecurity system.
Our joint report with Monash University reveals environmentally destructive ants, bees and wasps could be hitching a ride into Australia on an international bug superhighway.
The federal budget has taken important steps, but more work is needed to ensure key sectors are paying for the biosecurity risks they create.
In mid-September, in response to allegations aired by a shock-jock on Sydney radio, the NSW environment minister announced a ban on all shooting operations in Kosciuszko National Park.
Today’s release of a draft national plan to tackle the exploding numbers of feral deer across Australia has been welcomed by the Invasive Species Council.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Albanese government’s response to the independent review of Australia’s national environmental law, but warns that zero extinctions cannot be achieved unless more work is done to fix and resource Australia’s threat abatement system.
Today’s announcement that Australia is adopting a zero extinction target as part of its Threatened Species Action Plan is very welcome news.
The 2021 State of Environment Report identifies invasive species as the most prevalent threat to Australian wildlife and the primary cause of extinction events.
The 2022 federal election has been labelled a “greenslide”, with Australians turning out to vote for action on climate change and the environment.
Five national conservation groups launched a report called Averting Extinctions.
We pay tribute to Ian Thompson, Australia’s first Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer.
A review of Australia’s EPBC Act finds it is failing to address the main threats to nature.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian Supreme Court’s decision to protect the Alpine National Park from growing horse impacts but is concerned the possibility of further legal action will delay the inevitable.
Those opposed to action on Victoria’s feral horse problem are back in court today, a last ditch effort to delay the inevitable.
Resignation of top scientists puts spotlight on refusal to take scientific advice about the environmental disaster that will unfold as a result of Snowy 2.0.
The dumping of a proposed import levy is a huge setback for Australia’s biosecurity system.
Our joint report with Monash University reveals environmentally destructive ants, bees and wasps could be hitching a ride into Australia on an international bug superhighway.
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. The Invasive Species Council supports voting ‘YES’ for a Voice to Parliament.
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.
