The Invasive Species Council is calling on the Minns government to urgently adopt the sweeping reforms recommended in the NSW Invasive Species Management Review, released today by the Natural Resources Commission.
The Invasive Species Council warns that confusion about the implications of a Weed of National Significance (WONS) listing for buffel grass could undermine efforts to tackle one of Australia’s most damaging invaders.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s federal election commitments from the Australian Greens, applauding the party’s pledge to dramatically boost investment in nature and establish a Land and Sea Country Commissioner, an independent First Nations voice to guide environmental protection and management.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s firm rejection of US pressure to weaken Australia’s biosecurity laws.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the NSW government’s move to establish an Aboriginal Healthy Country Assistant Commissioner within the Natural Resources Commission (NRC), with recruitment now underway.
The Invasive Species Council expresses disappointment following the Queensland government’s unexpected withdrawal from what was shaping up to be a unanimous endorsement of an ambitious national plan to reduce the impact of feral cats on native wildlife.
New analysis from the Invasive Species Council has found roaming pet cats are estimated to have killed over 62 million of Sydney’s native animals this year.
The NSW Upper House has today released its report following an inquiry into the aerial shooting of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
Extinctions are holes torn in the fabric of life, and Australia is ragged from having so many species ripped out. This report examines the causes of modern extinctions in Australia to find that invasive species have caused the vast majority of losses since 1960.
The Invasive Species Council says the federal government’s response to the fire ant inquiry is disappointing and seems to miss the point of the Senate’s important recommendations.
The Albanese government is finally investing a serious amount into preparation for what could be the worst environmental disaster in Australia’s history.
A federally coordinated scenario planning exercise has demonstrated Australia is not yet prepared to protect Australian wildlife from an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu, according to leading Australian wildlife groups.
Iconic Tasmanian devil at risk of deadly H5N1 bird flu, Commonwealth Chief Vet warns.
After a decade-long delay, the Tasmanian State of Environment report has finally been released and shows invasive species are rapidly overtaking Tasmania’s unique wildlife and landscapes.
Invasive Species Council Indigenous Ambassador Richard Swain has welcomed the NSW Natural Resources Commission’s support for a First Nations Land and Sea Country Commissioner to improve invasive species management in NSW.
The Invasive Species Council is calling on the Minns government to urgently adopt the sweeping reforms recommended in the NSW Invasive Species Management Review, released today by the Natural Resources Commission.
The Invasive Species Council warns that confusion about the implications of a Weed of National Significance (WONS) listing for buffel grass could undermine efforts to tackle one of Australia’s most damaging invaders.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s federal election commitments from the Australian Greens, applauding the party’s pledge to dramatically boost investment in nature and establish a Land and Sea Country Commissioner, an independent First Nations voice to guide environmental protection and management.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s firm rejection of US pressure to weaken Australia’s biosecurity laws.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the NSW government’s move to establish an Aboriginal Healthy Country Assistant Commissioner within the Natural Resources Commission (NRC), with recruitment now underway.
The Invasive Species Council expresses disappointment following the Queensland government’s unexpected withdrawal from what was shaping up to be a unanimous endorsement of an ambitious national plan to reduce the impact of feral cats on native wildlife.
New analysis from the Invasive Species Council has found roaming pet cats are estimated to have killed over 62 million of Sydney’s native animals this year.
The NSW Upper House has today released its report following an inquiry into the aerial shooting of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
Extinctions are holes torn in the fabric of life, and Australia is ragged from having so many species ripped out. This report examines the causes of modern extinctions in Australia to find that invasive species have caused the vast majority of losses since 1960.
The Invasive Species Council says the federal government’s response to the fire ant inquiry is disappointing and seems to miss the point of the Senate’s important recommendations.
The Albanese government is finally investing a serious amount into preparation for what could be the worst environmental disaster in Australia’s history.
A federally coordinated scenario planning exercise has demonstrated Australia is not yet prepared to protect Australian wildlife from an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu, according to leading Australian wildlife groups.
Iconic Tasmanian devil at risk of deadly H5N1 bird flu, Commonwealth Chief Vet warns.
After a decade-long delay, the Tasmanian State of Environment report has finally been released and shows invasive species are rapidly overtaking Tasmania’s unique wildlife and landscapes.
Invasive Species Council Indigenous Ambassador Richard Swain has welcomed the NSW Natural Resources Commission’s support for a First Nations Land and Sea Country Commissioner to improve invasive species management in NSW.
The Invasive Species Council is calling on the Minns government to urgently adopt the sweeping reforms recommended in the NSW Invasive Species Management Review, released today by the Natural Resources Commission.
The Invasive Species Council warns that confusion about the implications of a Weed of National Significance (WONS) listing for buffel grass could undermine efforts to tackle one of Australia’s most damaging invaders.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s federal election commitments from the Australian Greens, applauding the party’s pledge to dramatically boost investment in nature and establish a Land and Sea Country Commissioner, an independent First Nations voice to guide environmental protection and management.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s firm rejection of US pressure to weaken Australia’s biosecurity laws.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the NSW government’s move to establish an Aboriginal Healthy Country Assistant Commissioner within the Natural Resources Commission (NRC), with recruitment now underway.
The Invasive Species Council expresses disappointment following the Queensland government’s unexpected withdrawal from what was shaping up to be a unanimous endorsement of an ambitious national plan to reduce the impact of feral cats on native wildlife.
New analysis from the Invasive Species Council has found roaming pet cats are estimated to have killed over 62 million of Sydney’s native animals this year.
The NSW Upper House has today released its report following an inquiry into the aerial shooting of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
Extinctions are holes torn in the fabric of life, and Australia is ragged from having so many species ripped out. This report examines the causes of modern extinctions in Australia to find that invasive species have caused the vast majority of losses since 1960.
The Invasive Species Council says the federal government’s response to the fire ant inquiry is disappointing and seems to miss the point of the Senate’s important recommendations.
The Albanese government is finally investing a serious amount into preparation for what could be the worst environmental disaster in Australia’s history.
A federally coordinated scenario planning exercise has demonstrated Australia is not yet prepared to protect Australian wildlife from an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu, according to leading Australian wildlife groups.
Iconic Tasmanian devil at risk of deadly H5N1 bird flu, Commonwealth Chief Vet warns.
After a decade-long delay, the Tasmanian State of Environment report has finally been released and shows invasive species are rapidly overtaking Tasmania’s unique wildlife and landscapes.
Invasive Species Council Indigenous Ambassador Richard Swain has welcomed the NSW Natural Resources Commission’s support for a First Nations Land and Sea Country Commissioner to improve invasive species management in NSW.
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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.
