The call to increase funding to reduce the impact of feral and roaming pet cats follows the release today by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek of the details of 55 federally funded feral cat projects across the country.
Following an ABC story over the weekend featuring the Invasive Species Council which highlighted the alarming threat of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain to our native animals – a threat that is wreaking havoc overseas – the federal government has today announced a $7 million preparation package.
The Invasive Species Council, the Australian Marine Conservation Society and the Biodiversity Council are calling on Australia’s governments to urgently and collaboratively ramp up preparations for bird flu in wildlife.
Buffel grass is undeniably one of the most severe invasive threats to the environment and culture of Central and Northern Australia
Tim Low, co-founder of the Invasive Species Council and esteemed author, has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his extraordinary contributions to conservation and environmental education.
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
Analysis by the Biodiversity Council shows that if all pet cats were kept securely contained by their owners it would save hundreds of human lives, millions of native animals and billions of dollars each year
The Invasive Species Council and Nature Conservation Council have called on the NSW government to introduce clear laws to ensure pet cats are kept safe at home in order to save millions of native animals every year. The call comes in the wake of another 48 species added to the endangered species list.
The Invasive Species Council and Biodiversity Council welcomed the federal government draft Threat Abatement Plan for Feral Cats, open for public consultation. Without serious action in Australia, we could lose native wildlife like Bilbies, Numbats, and Night Parrots. Forever.
A landmark global scientific report, released by the United Nations, has found that invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion every year.
A visit to New Zealand is to witness a growing movement targeting the killing of pest animals and the excitement in seeing the return of birds and their songs.
We’re excited to announce Dr Norman Swan as a keynote speaker for the 2nd Australian Biosecurity Symposium.
The man who spearheaded efforts to reduce the impacts of feral cats in WA has been awarded a national Froggatt award.
We’ve put out an urgent plea to UNESCO for help in addressing the urgent and increasing threat feral deer pose to the Tasmania’s World Heritage Area.
An aerial survey of Tasmania has revealed populations of feral deer in that state are much worse than first thought and demand action.
The call to increase funding to reduce the impact of feral and roaming pet cats follows the release today by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek of the details of 55 federally funded feral cat projects across the country.
Following an ABC story over the weekend featuring the Invasive Species Council which highlighted the alarming threat of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain to our native animals – a threat that is wreaking havoc overseas – the federal government has today announced a $7 million preparation package.
The Invasive Species Council, the Australian Marine Conservation Society and the Biodiversity Council are calling on Australia’s governments to urgently and collaboratively ramp up preparations for bird flu in wildlife.
Buffel grass is undeniably one of the most severe invasive threats to the environment and culture of Central and Northern Australia
Tim Low, co-founder of the Invasive Species Council and esteemed author, has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his extraordinary contributions to conservation and environmental education.
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
Analysis by the Biodiversity Council shows that if all pet cats were kept securely contained by their owners it would save hundreds of human lives, millions of native animals and billions of dollars each year
The Invasive Species Council and Nature Conservation Council have called on the NSW government to introduce clear laws to ensure pet cats are kept safe at home in order to save millions of native animals every year. The call comes in the wake of another 48 species added to the endangered species list.
The Invasive Species Council and Biodiversity Council welcomed the federal government draft Threat Abatement Plan for Feral Cats, open for public consultation. Without serious action in Australia, we could lose native wildlife like Bilbies, Numbats, and Night Parrots. Forever.
A landmark global scientific report, released by the United Nations, has found that invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion every year.
A visit to New Zealand is to witness a growing movement targeting the killing of pest animals and the excitement in seeing the return of birds and their songs.
We’re excited to announce Dr Norman Swan as a keynote speaker for the 2nd Australian Biosecurity Symposium.
The man who spearheaded efforts to reduce the impacts of feral cats in WA has been awarded a national Froggatt award.
We’ve put out an urgent plea to UNESCO for help in addressing the urgent and increasing threat feral deer pose to the Tasmania’s World Heritage Area.
An aerial survey of Tasmania has revealed populations of feral deer in that state are much worse than first thought and demand action.
The call to increase funding to reduce the impact of feral and roaming pet cats follows the release today by Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek of the details of 55 federally funded feral cat projects across the country.
Following an ABC story over the weekend featuring the Invasive Species Council which highlighted the alarming threat of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain to our native animals – a threat that is wreaking havoc overseas – the federal government has today announced a $7 million preparation package.
The Invasive Species Council, the Australian Marine Conservation Society and the Biodiversity Council are calling on Australia’s governments to urgently and collaboratively ramp up preparations for bird flu in wildlife.
Buffel grass is undeniably one of the most severe invasive threats to the environment and culture of Central and Northern Australia
Tim Low, co-founder of the Invasive Species Council and esteemed author, has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his extraordinary contributions to conservation and environmental education.
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
Analysis by the Biodiversity Council shows that if all pet cats were kept securely contained by their owners it would save hundreds of human lives, millions of native animals and billions of dollars each year
The Invasive Species Council and Nature Conservation Council have called on the NSW government to introduce clear laws to ensure pet cats are kept safe at home in order to save millions of native animals every year. The call comes in the wake of another 48 species added to the endangered species list.
The Invasive Species Council and Biodiversity Council welcomed the federal government draft Threat Abatement Plan for Feral Cats, open for public consultation. Without serious action in Australia, we could lose native wildlife like Bilbies, Numbats, and Night Parrots. Forever.
A landmark global scientific report, released by the United Nations, has found that invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion every year.
A visit to New Zealand is to witness a growing movement targeting the killing of pest animals and the excitement in seeing the return of birds and their songs.
We’re excited to announce Dr Norman Swan as a keynote speaker for the 2nd Australian Biosecurity Symposium.
The man who spearheaded efforts to reduce the impacts of feral cats in WA has been awarded a national Froggatt award.
We’ve put out an urgent plea to UNESCO for help in addressing the urgent and increasing threat feral deer pose to the Tasmania’s World Heritage Area.
An aerial survey of Tasmania has revealed populations of feral deer in that state are much worse than first thought and demand action.
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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.
