Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
10 July, 2024
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Feral horse numbers are expanding across the Australian Alps and other parts of the country, causing immense ecological damage.
Agriculture and the natural environment have stark differences that warrant distinctive approaches to biosecurity.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
Send a submission to the Australian Senate demanding urgent action on fire ants.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) are rightly considered a super-pest globally
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Send a submission to the Australian Senate demanding urgent action on fire ants.
Feral deer are probably Australia’s worst emerging pest problem, causing damage to the natural environment and agricultural businesses.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
A form for NSW councillors to submit their interest in and support for cat containment policies.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Feral horse numbers are expanding across the Australian Alps and other parts of the country, causing immense ecological damage.
Agriculture and the natural environment have stark differences that warrant distinctive approaches to biosecurity.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
Send a submission to the Australian Senate demanding urgent action on fire ants.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) are rightly considered a super-pest globally
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Send a submission to the Australian Senate demanding urgent action on fire ants.
Feral deer are probably Australia’s worst emerging pest problem, causing damage to the natural environment and agricultural businesses.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
A form for NSW councillors to submit their interest in and support for cat containment policies.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Feral horse numbers are expanding across the Australian Alps and other parts of the country, causing immense ecological damage.
Agriculture and the natural environment have stark differences that warrant distinctive approaches to biosecurity.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
Send a submission to the Australian Senate demanding urgent action on fire ants.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) are rightly considered a super-pest globally
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
Send a submission to the Australian Senate demanding urgent action on fire ants.
Feral deer are probably Australia’s worst emerging pest problem, causing damage to the natural environment and agricultural businesses.
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines, largely due to invasive species. Extinct: Christmas Island pipistrelle
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
A form for NSW councillors to submit their interest in and support for cat containment policies.
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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.