Overall, we strongly endorse the draft implementation plan for the Priority Exotic Environmental Pests List. However, a few important gaps in the plan need to be addressed.
Listing fire regimes that cause biodiversity decline as a key threatening process could be a major step towards substantially reducing threats to nature in Australia.
We pay tribute to Ian Thompson, Australia’s first Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer.
Professor Graeme Samuel’s review of Australia’s EPBC Act has determined the law is ineffective and unfit for purpose.
Our submission to the Victorian Parliament’s Inquiry into Ecosystem Decline in Victoria includes recommendations that would see strong progress towards reducing the impacts of invasive species.
The interim review of the EPBC Act is a straight-talking critique that identified major weaknesses in the Act and proposes promising remedies.
National environmental laws are failing to stop species becoming extinct in Australia.
Domestic cats were introduced to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. They are now one of the most damaging invasive species worldwide, and in Australia have been a major driver of mammal extinctions.
Our joint submission to the Australian Government’s inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats includes strengthening regulations for cat-free islands.
Professor Graeme Samuel’s interim review of Australia’s key national conservation law, the EPBC Act, is a straight talking critique of its failings.
Will strong leadership by NSW environment minister Matt Kean be enough to see science-based feral horse management in Kosciuszko National Park become the new norm?
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.
