The Invasive Species Council warns that confusion about the implications of a Weed of National Significance (WONS) listing for buffel grass could undermine efforts to tackle one of Australia’s most damaging invaders.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the announcement by newly elected Independent MLA Thomas Emerson that the Australian Capital Territory government will increase the number of national parks rangers to work on environmental conservation and invasive species management.
The Symposium provided the ideal platform to explore how to transform Australia’s biosecurity systems to better protect our economy, environment and way of life.
The Invasive Species Council congratulates three deserving winners of the prestigious Froggatt Award, given to those who have made a major contribution to protecting Australia’s native plants and animals, ecosystems and people from dangerous new invasive species.
Experts warn a lack of regulation in the garden industry is seeing weedy plants, that can easily be bought in nurseries or online, ‘suffocate’ our native waterways and bushland, with urgent calls for action to prevent more irreversible damage.
Buffel grass is undeniably one of the most severe invasive threats to the environment and culture of Central and Northern Australia
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
Buffel fuelled wildfires affect all stakeholders, they put lives at risk and significantly impact the environment, culture, health, tourism, the arts, land managers and emerging economies.
Invasive Species Council has called on all parties and candidates to make action on invasive species like feral deer, feral cats and weeds a priority.
A secret report finally made public today, thanks to campaigning by the Invasive Species Council, reveals Australia’s inadequate response to fire ants.
WA community group Friends of the Fitzroy has won a Froggatt Award for uniting land managers, keyboard weeders and AI.
Steve Taylor has been awarded a Froggatt Award for championing a new way of mapping invasive plants across the ACT.
The flowers of a rubber vine are annoyingly pretty. But its vanity is also the secret to its downfall along the Fitzroy River in Western Australia.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes today’s commitment by NSW Labor to fund 100 new National Parks field officers to tackle uncontrolled weeds and pests, maintain fire trails and support firefighting efforts.
Ahead of the NSW election, the Invasive Species Council has sounded a warning that NSW faces a pest and weed disaster due to the cumulative effect of recent natural disasters, climate change, underfunding and a lack of political will.
The Invasive Species Council warns that confusion about the implications of a Weed of National Significance (WONS) listing for buffel grass could undermine efforts to tackle one of Australia’s most damaging invaders.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the announcement by newly elected Independent MLA Thomas Emerson that the Australian Capital Territory government will increase the number of national parks rangers to work on environmental conservation and invasive species management.
The Symposium provided the ideal platform to explore how to transform Australia’s biosecurity systems to better protect our economy, environment and way of life.
The Invasive Species Council congratulates three deserving winners of the prestigious Froggatt Award, given to those who have made a major contribution to protecting Australia’s native plants and animals, ecosystems and people from dangerous new invasive species.
Experts warn a lack of regulation in the garden industry is seeing weedy plants, that can easily be bought in nurseries or online, ‘suffocate’ our native waterways and bushland, with urgent calls for action to prevent more irreversible damage.
Buffel grass is undeniably one of the most severe invasive threats to the environment and culture of Central and Northern Australia
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
Buffel fuelled wildfires affect all stakeholders, they put lives at risk and significantly impact the environment, culture, health, tourism, the arts, land managers and emerging economies.
Invasive Species Council has called on all parties and candidates to make action on invasive species like feral deer, feral cats and weeds a priority.
A secret report finally made public today, thanks to campaigning by the Invasive Species Council, reveals Australia’s inadequate response to fire ants.
WA community group Friends of the Fitzroy has won a Froggatt Award for uniting land managers, keyboard weeders and AI.
Steve Taylor has been awarded a Froggatt Award for championing a new way of mapping invasive plants across the ACT.
The flowers of a rubber vine are annoyingly pretty. But its vanity is also the secret to its downfall along the Fitzroy River in Western Australia.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes today’s commitment by NSW Labor to fund 100 new National Parks field officers to tackle uncontrolled weeds and pests, maintain fire trails and support firefighting efforts.
Ahead of the NSW election, the Invasive Species Council has sounded a warning that NSW faces a pest and weed disaster due to the cumulative effect of recent natural disasters, climate change, underfunding and a lack of political will.
The Invasive Species Council warns that confusion about the implications of a Weed of National Significance (WONS) listing for buffel grass could undermine efforts to tackle one of Australia’s most damaging invaders.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the announcement by newly elected Independent MLA Thomas Emerson that the Australian Capital Territory government will increase the number of national parks rangers to work on environmental conservation and invasive species management.
The Symposium provided the ideal platform to explore how to transform Australia’s biosecurity systems to better protect our economy, environment and way of life.
The Invasive Species Council congratulates three deserving winners of the prestigious Froggatt Award, given to those who have made a major contribution to protecting Australia’s native plants and animals, ecosystems and people from dangerous new invasive species.
Experts warn a lack of regulation in the garden industry is seeing weedy plants, that can easily be bought in nurseries or online, ‘suffocate’ our native waterways and bushland, with urgent calls for action to prevent more irreversible damage.
Buffel grass is undeniably one of the most severe invasive threats to the environment and culture of Central and Northern Australia
New global research highlights the severe impact of invasive species on Indigenous culture and connection to Country.
Buffel fuelled wildfires affect all stakeholders, they put lives at risk and significantly impact the environment, culture, health, tourism, the arts, land managers and emerging economies.
Invasive Species Council has called on all parties and candidates to make action on invasive species like feral deer, feral cats and weeds a priority.
A secret report finally made public today, thanks to campaigning by the Invasive Species Council, reveals Australia’s inadequate response to fire ants.
WA community group Friends of the Fitzroy has won a Froggatt Award for uniting land managers, keyboard weeders and AI.
Steve Taylor has been awarded a Froggatt Award for championing a new way of mapping invasive plants across the ACT.
The flowers of a rubber vine are annoyingly pretty. But its vanity is also the secret to its downfall along the Fitzroy River in Western Australia.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes today’s commitment by NSW Labor to fund 100 new National Parks field officers to tackle uncontrolled weeds and pests, maintain fire trails and support firefighting efforts.
Ahead of the NSW election, the Invasive Species Council has sounded a warning that NSW faces a pest and weed disaster due to the cumulative effect of recent natural disasters, climate change, underfunding and a lack of political will.
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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.
