Traditional Owners are in Canberra today calling on the Australian Government to take urgent national action on buffel grass – one of the most destructive invasive weeds transforming Australia’s arid landscapes.
Right now, Australia is quietly sliding back towards the conditions that made those plagues possible. All because the federal Government has not continued to fund the one thing that would prevent it – biocontrol.
The Invasive Species Council and Australian Land Conservation Alliance are warning that a failure to commit to ongoing funding for the Saving Native Species program in today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has pushed Australia’s flagship environmental recovery efforts into a funding ‘valley of death’, leaving nationally significant projects exposed to a damaging and avoidable funding gap.
The Invasive Species Council and politicians across the political spectrum have hailed a landmark victory for nature, with both houses of NSW Parliament voting to finally repeal the controversial Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act – ending years of political protection for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
The Invasive Species Council is calling for a full investigation of allegations of serious enforcement failings inside Australia’s federal biosecurity agency, reported in a new review by the Inspector-General of Biosecurity.
Australia’s national environment law has a missing letter – and that small omission tells a big story about why our wildlife keeps disappearing.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Queensland government’s proposal to restrict Amazon frogbit under the state’s biosecurity laws but says Queensland should seize the opportunity to stop history repeating itself with other invasive aquatic weeds.
The news today of a suspected H5 bird flu detection in elephant seals on World Heritage Heard Island is a wake-up call, the Invasive Species Council says.
A new international effort, the Global Environmental Biosecurity Initiative, has been officially launched at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW government’s response to major reviews of invasive species management and biosecurity governance.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the new Tasmanian government and is calling on Premier Jeremy Rockliff to urgently deliver on the 100-day promise to finalise a new Invasive Species Action Plan.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed a new application to import Bengal cats – a hybrid of Asian leopard cats and domestic cats – warning it would mean deliberately unleashing more genetic monsters into a country with wildlife already being devastated by feral and roaming pet cats.
This week Treasurer Jim Chalmers will gather economic leaders to debate productivity – but unless they confront the rising costs of environmental decline and invasive species, they’ll miss the most urgent reform of our time.
Leaders from Australia’s environment sector have delivered a set of recommendations to the government ahead of its three-day economic roundtable this week.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s $2.8 million federal funding announcement to strengthen bird flu biosecurity across captive-breeding threatened species programs.
Traditional Owners are in Canberra today calling on the Australian Government to take urgent national action on buffel grass – one of the most destructive invasive weeds transforming Australia’s arid landscapes.
Right now, Australia is quietly sliding back towards the conditions that made those plagues possible. All because the federal Government has not continued to fund the one thing that would prevent it – biocontrol.
The Invasive Species Council and Australian Land Conservation Alliance are warning that a failure to commit to ongoing funding for the Saving Native Species program in today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has pushed Australia’s flagship environmental recovery efforts into a funding ‘valley of death’, leaving nationally significant projects exposed to a damaging and avoidable funding gap.
The Invasive Species Council and politicians across the political spectrum have hailed a landmark victory for nature, with both houses of NSW Parliament voting to finally repeal the controversial Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act – ending years of political protection for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
The Invasive Species Council is calling for a full investigation of allegations of serious enforcement failings inside Australia’s federal biosecurity agency, reported in a new review by the Inspector-General of Biosecurity.
Australia’s national environment law has a missing letter – and that small omission tells a big story about why our wildlife keeps disappearing.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Queensland government’s proposal to restrict Amazon frogbit under the state’s biosecurity laws but says Queensland should seize the opportunity to stop history repeating itself with other invasive aquatic weeds.
The news today of a suspected H5 bird flu detection in elephant seals on World Heritage Heard Island is a wake-up call, the Invasive Species Council says.
A new international effort, the Global Environmental Biosecurity Initiative, has been officially launched at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW government’s response to major reviews of invasive species management and biosecurity governance.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the new Tasmanian government and is calling on Premier Jeremy Rockliff to urgently deliver on the 100-day promise to finalise a new Invasive Species Action Plan.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed a new application to import Bengal cats – a hybrid of Asian leopard cats and domestic cats – warning it would mean deliberately unleashing more genetic monsters into a country with wildlife already being devastated by feral and roaming pet cats.
This week Treasurer Jim Chalmers will gather economic leaders to debate productivity – but unless they confront the rising costs of environmental decline and invasive species, they’ll miss the most urgent reform of our time.
Leaders from Australia’s environment sector have delivered a set of recommendations to the government ahead of its three-day economic roundtable this week.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s $2.8 million federal funding announcement to strengthen bird flu biosecurity across captive-breeding threatened species programs.
Traditional Owners are in Canberra today calling on the Australian Government to take urgent national action on buffel grass – one of the most destructive invasive weeds transforming Australia’s arid landscapes.
Right now, Australia is quietly sliding back towards the conditions that made those plagues possible. All because the federal Government has not continued to fund the one thing that would prevent it – biocontrol.
The Invasive Species Council and Australian Land Conservation Alliance are warning that a failure to commit to ongoing funding for the Saving Native Species program in today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has pushed Australia’s flagship environmental recovery efforts into a funding ‘valley of death’, leaving nationally significant projects exposed to a damaging and avoidable funding gap.
The Invasive Species Council and politicians across the political spectrum have hailed a landmark victory for nature, with both houses of NSW Parliament voting to finally repeal the controversial Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act – ending years of political protection for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
The Invasive Species Council is calling for a full investigation of allegations of serious enforcement failings inside Australia’s federal biosecurity agency, reported in a new review by the Inspector-General of Biosecurity.
Australia’s national environment law has a missing letter – and that small omission tells a big story about why our wildlife keeps disappearing.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Queensland government’s proposal to restrict Amazon frogbit under the state’s biosecurity laws but says Queensland should seize the opportunity to stop history repeating itself with other invasive aquatic weeds.
The news today of a suspected H5 bird flu detection in elephant seals on World Heritage Heard Island is a wake-up call, the Invasive Species Council says.
A new international effort, the Global Environmental Biosecurity Initiative, has been officially launched at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the NSW government’s response to major reviews of invasive species management and biosecurity governance.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the new Tasmanian government and is calling on Premier Jeremy Rockliff to urgently deliver on the 100-day promise to finalise a new Invasive Species Action Plan.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed a new application to import Bengal cats – a hybrid of Asian leopard cats and domestic cats – warning it would mean deliberately unleashing more genetic monsters into a country with wildlife already being devastated by feral and roaming pet cats.
This week Treasurer Jim Chalmers will gather economic leaders to debate productivity – but unless they confront the rising costs of environmental decline and invasive species, they’ll miss the most urgent reform of our time.
Leaders from Australia’s environment sector have delivered a set of recommendations to the government ahead of its three-day economic roundtable this week.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed today’s $2.8 million federal funding announcement to strengthen bird flu biosecurity across captive-breeding threatened species programs.
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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.
