Native species killed or stressed by climate change will all too often be replaced by weeds and feral animals or infected by exotic diseases.

Enviromental Health Australia would be a national body dedicated to environmental biosecurity and tackling Australia’s most pressing environmental threats.

We’re working with the Norfolk Island community to control invasive pests and stop the introduction of potential new pest species. We are also supporting a project to map the vegetation of Norfolk Island for the first time.

We are working in partnership with the Lord Howe Island Board to promote rat eradication.

In April 2010 a new pathogen that could fundamentally alter Australia’s ecology was detected in NSW. Australia was caught off-guard in responding to this new incursion.

People, wildlife, agriculture, infrastructure – no aspect of our lives is safe from the destructive power of invasive ants now found in Australia.

Most plants being promoted as in Australia as biofuels are serious weeds that should not be grown.

The Biosecurity Bill marks the final stage in a major overhaul of the way Australia protects its borders from invasive species.

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.

Funding recreational hunting as a primary method of control is a waste of taxpayers’ money. At best, hunters can supplement more effective methods of feral animal control.