Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
More than a million deer now trample Victoria’s national parks, yet the Victorian government is yet to list them as a pest animal.
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
We focus on stopping new invasive species from entering Australia and preventing the spread of those already established.
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
Cat-lover or not, none of us can escape the devastating impacts feral and roaming cats are having on Australia’s wildlife.
This fact sheet illustrates the effectiveness of recreational hunting, reviews its pros and cons as well as compares and contrasts it with professional shooting.
In this submission, we call on the Hon Kate Worden MLA, Minister for Environment Climate Change and Water Security to declare buffel grass a weed under the NT Weeds Management Act for all land tenure in the Northern Territory.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
Animal welfare is important – for both introduced and native species – because of an ethical imperative to try to avoid inflicting harm on sentient animals.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the development of a new Feral Deer Management Strategy to replace the Feral Deer Management Strategy 2013-18.
New report from Frontier Economics warns not controlling the impacts of feral deer in Victoria could cost the community $2.2 billion.
Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
More than a million deer now trample Victoria’s national parks, yet the Victorian government is yet to list them as a pest animal.
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
We focus on stopping new invasive species from entering Australia and preventing the spread of those already established.
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
Cat-lover or not, none of us can escape the devastating impacts feral and roaming cats are having on Australia’s wildlife.
This fact sheet illustrates the effectiveness of recreational hunting, reviews its pros and cons as well as compares and contrasts it with professional shooting.
In this submission, we call on the Hon Kate Worden MLA, Minister for Environment Climate Change and Water Security to declare buffel grass a weed under the NT Weeds Management Act for all land tenure in the Northern Territory.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
Animal welfare is important – for both introduced and native species – because of an ethical imperative to try to avoid inflicting harm on sentient animals.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the development of a new Feral Deer Management Strategy to replace the Feral Deer Management Strategy 2013-18.
New report from Frontier Economics warns not controlling the impacts of feral deer in Victoria could cost the community $2.2 billion.
Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
More than a million deer now trample Victoria’s national parks, yet the Victorian government is yet to list them as a pest animal.
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
We focus on stopping new invasive species from entering Australia and preventing the spread of those already established.
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
Cat-lover or not, none of us can escape the devastating impacts feral and roaming cats are having on Australia’s wildlife.
This fact sheet illustrates the effectiveness of recreational hunting, reviews its pros and cons as well as compares and contrasts it with professional shooting.
In this submission, we call on the Hon Kate Worden MLA, Minister for Environment Climate Change and Water Security to declare buffel grass a weed under the NT Weeds Management Act for all land tenure in the Northern Territory.
Feral deer numbers could reach more than 1 million by 2050.
Fostering responsible pet ownership in New South Wales.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
Animal welfare is important – for both introduced and native species – because of an ethical imperative to try to avoid inflicting harm on sentient animals.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the development of a new Feral Deer Management Strategy to replace the Feral Deer Management Strategy 2013-18.
New report from Frontier Economics warns not controlling the impacts of feral deer in Victoria could cost the community $2.2 billion.
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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. The Invasive Species Council supports voting ‘YES’ for a Voice to Parliament.
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.
