Submitted: March 2018
A submission to Australia’s Strategy for Nature 2018-2030 draft that recommends that the proposed Strategy be discarded and the Biodiversity Working Group produce a more appropriate, comprehensive strategy. Additional recommendations are made.
Submitted: March 2018
National environmental biosecurity roundtables were held in 2016 and 2017. A set of eight recommendations are offered to maximise the value of roundtables for participants and to deepen the relationship between government and the community and environmental sector.
Australia is perilously close to losing the war against red fire ants. But right now, instead of taking action, our governments are refusing to release an independently written report that details what needs to be done to eradicate these dangerous invasive ants!
Submitted: February 2018
The Invasive Species Council provides feedback on the draft statement that was circulated for public comment at the national biosecurity roundtable and the environmental biosecurity roundtable meetings in November 2017.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: January 2018
Comments on the exposure draft of the Biosecurity Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2017. The proposed changes are fully supported.
November 2017
With the Australian Government assuming responsibility for pre-border and border biosecurity there is now potential for Norfolk Island to be an exemplar in conservation-based island biosecurity.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: August 2017
The work of the Invasive Species Council has been widely recognised by governments and the community and strongly opposes any requirement for DGR registered groups to undertake expenditure on environmental remediation. This proposed measure is extremely inefficient, illogical and disruptive and would have an extremely detrimental impact on our work.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: July 2017
A joint submission to the draft Queensland Biosecurity Strategy 2017-22 by the Invasive Species Council, Queensland Conservation Council and Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland. The strategy is broadly endorsed but argues for a greater emphasis on environmental biosecurity and recognition of the limited capacity of the conservation sector.
The federal government has released a National Feral Deer Action Plan, and public submissions for the plan are now open. Please use this form to make a submission today.
Submitted: June 2017
This submission to the draft Tasmanian biosecurity legislation provides 25 recommendations ranging from suggestions that in environmental biosecurity matters the Environment Minister be consulted through to requiring a general biosecurity duty.
March 2017
Our best-practice environmental guide for Australian policy makers shows how we can create a biosecurity system that’s properly aimed at delivering real environmental protection on behalf of all Australians.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
Submitted: March 2018
A submission to Australia’s Strategy for Nature 2018-2030 draft that recommends that the proposed Strategy be discarded and the Biodiversity Working Group produce a more appropriate, comprehensive strategy. Additional recommendations are made.
Submitted: March 2018
National environmental biosecurity roundtables were held in 2016 and 2017. A set of eight recommendations are offered to maximise the value of roundtables for participants and to deepen the relationship between government and the community and environmental sector.
Australia is perilously close to losing the war against red fire ants. But right now, instead of taking action, our governments are refusing to release an independently written report that details what needs to be done to eradicate these dangerous invasive ants!
Submitted: February 2018
The Invasive Species Council provides feedback on the draft statement that was circulated for public comment at the national biosecurity roundtable and the environmental biosecurity roundtable meetings in November 2017.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: January 2018
Comments on the exposure draft of the Biosecurity Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2017. The proposed changes are fully supported.
November 2017
With the Australian Government assuming responsibility for pre-border and border biosecurity there is now potential for Norfolk Island to be an exemplar in conservation-based island biosecurity.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: August 2017
The work of the Invasive Species Council has been widely recognised by governments and the community and strongly opposes any requirement for DGR registered groups to undertake expenditure on environmental remediation. This proposed measure is extremely inefficient, illogical and disruptive and would have an extremely detrimental impact on our work.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: July 2017
A joint submission to the draft Queensland Biosecurity Strategy 2017-22 by the Invasive Species Council, Queensland Conservation Council and Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland. The strategy is broadly endorsed but argues for a greater emphasis on environmental biosecurity and recognition of the limited capacity of the conservation sector.
The federal government has released a National Feral Deer Action Plan, and public submissions for the plan are now open. Please use this form to make a submission today.
Submitted: June 2017
This submission to the draft Tasmanian biosecurity legislation provides 25 recommendations ranging from suggestions that in environmental biosecurity matters the Environment Minister be consulted through to requiring a general biosecurity duty.
March 2017
Our best-practice environmental guide for Australian policy makers shows how we can create a biosecurity system that’s properly aimed at delivering real environmental protection on behalf of all Australians.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
Submitted: March 2018
A submission to Australia’s Strategy for Nature 2018-2030 draft that recommends that the proposed Strategy be discarded and the Biodiversity Working Group produce a more appropriate, comprehensive strategy. Additional recommendations are made.
Submitted: March 2018
National environmental biosecurity roundtables were held in 2016 and 2017. A set of eight recommendations are offered to maximise the value of roundtables for participants and to deepen the relationship between government and the community and environmental sector.
Australia is perilously close to losing the war against red fire ants. But right now, instead of taking action, our governments are refusing to release an independently written report that details what needs to be done to eradicate these dangerous invasive ants!
Submitted: February 2018
The Invasive Species Council provides feedback on the draft statement that was circulated for public comment at the national biosecurity roundtable and the environmental biosecurity roundtable meetings in November 2017.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: January 2018
Comments on the exposure draft of the Biosecurity Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2017. The proposed changes are fully supported.
November 2017
With the Australian Government assuming responsibility for pre-border and border biosecurity there is now potential for Norfolk Island to be an exemplar in conservation-based island biosecurity.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: August 2017
The work of the Invasive Species Council has been widely recognised by governments and the community and strongly opposes any requirement for DGR registered groups to undertake expenditure on environmental remediation. This proposed measure is extremely inefficient, illogical and disruptive and would have an extremely detrimental impact on our work.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
Submitted: July 2017
A joint submission to the draft Queensland Biosecurity Strategy 2017-22 by the Invasive Species Council, Queensland Conservation Council and Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland. The strategy is broadly endorsed but argues for a greater emphasis on environmental biosecurity and recognition of the limited capacity of the conservation sector.
The federal government has released a National Feral Deer Action Plan, and public submissions for the plan are now open. Please use this form to make a submission today.
Submitted: June 2017
This submission to the draft Tasmanian biosecurity legislation provides 25 recommendations ranging from suggestions that in environmental biosecurity matters the Environment Minister be consulted through to requiring a general biosecurity duty.
March 2017
Our best-practice environmental guide for Australian policy makers shows how we can create a biosecurity system that’s properly aimed at delivering real environmental protection on behalf of all Australians.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
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Our protected areas are being trashed, trampled, choked and polluted by an onslaught of invaders. Invasive species are already the overwhelming driver of our animal extinction rate, and are expected to cause 75 of the next 100 extinctions.
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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.
