The Yalmy galaxias is a member of what probably counts as Australia’s most threatened group of animals. The last survey of the critically endangered species,
In the midst of an extinction crisis, our problematic invasive species are big winners in the federal budget. The 2024 budget was a missed opportunity,
It was a weed that Sydney almost eliminated. In the 1970’s the NSW government banned pampas grass (Cortaderia species) and ran an effective education campaign
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on Earth. It has some of Australia’s most spectacular protected areas
Recently I visited lungtalanana island, once called Clarke Island, with the mob from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. They’re undertaking a cultural restoration project on the
“For modern Australia to say no, I think that’s their loss. I feel sorry for them. But I mostly feel sorry for Country and our future generations.”
Voice of Country program lead and ISC Indigenous Ambassador, Richard Swain reflects on the referendum outcome and the journey to heal Country.
These findings are part of the ANAO report Management of Threatened Species and Ecological Communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 tabled today in the Australian Parliament.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Australia has to be ready to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and a jobs-rich conservation and land management program could be just the ticket.
Volunteer firefighter and wildlife carer calls for all-out attack on feral animals in fire zones scorched by this summer’s catastrophic bushfires.
Australia’s first Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer has been in place for a year, so now is a good time to review the success of the position.
Australia’s new ten-year biodiversity strategy is a huge disappointment for invasive species and for biodiversity in general.
Just before Mother’s Day every year millions of flowers from across the world flood in to Australia. It is one of the most dangerous days on our calendar.
Protecting Australia from invasive species is not just for the ‘professionals’; the community could play a much larger role.
A stunning new book by Kirsha Kaechele begs the question, can we see invasive species as not just a problem to be exterminated, but also as a potential asset?
The Yalmy galaxias is a member of what probably counts as Australia’s most threatened group of animals. The last survey of the critically endangered species,
In the midst of an extinction crisis, our problematic invasive species are big winners in the federal budget. The 2024 budget was a missed opportunity,
It was a weed that Sydney almost eliminated. In the 1970’s the NSW government banned pampas grass (Cortaderia species) and ran an effective education campaign
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on Earth. It has some of Australia’s most spectacular protected areas
Recently I visited lungtalanana island, once called Clarke Island, with the mob from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. They’re undertaking a cultural restoration project on the
“For modern Australia to say no, I think that’s their loss. I feel sorry for them. But I mostly feel sorry for Country and our future generations.”
Voice of Country program lead and ISC Indigenous Ambassador, Richard Swain reflects on the referendum outcome and the journey to heal Country.
These findings are part of the ANAO report Management of Threatened Species and Ecological Communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 tabled today in the Australian Parliament.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Australia has to be ready to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and a jobs-rich conservation and land management program could be just the ticket.
Volunteer firefighter and wildlife carer calls for all-out attack on feral animals in fire zones scorched by this summer’s catastrophic bushfires.
Australia’s first Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer has been in place for a year, so now is a good time to review the success of the position.
Australia’s new ten-year biodiversity strategy is a huge disappointment for invasive species and for biodiversity in general.
Just before Mother’s Day every year millions of flowers from across the world flood in to Australia. It is one of the most dangerous days on our calendar.
Protecting Australia from invasive species is not just for the ‘professionals’; the community could play a much larger role.
A stunning new book by Kirsha Kaechele begs the question, can we see invasive species as not just a problem to be exterminated, but also as a potential asset?
The Yalmy galaxias is a member of what probably counts as Australia’s most threatened group of animals. The last survey of the critically endangered species,
In the midst of an extinction crisis, our problematic invasive species are big winners in the federal budget. The 2024 budget was a missed opportunity,
It was a weed that Sydney almost eliminated. In the 1970’s the NSW government banned pampas grass (Cortaderia species) and ran an effective education campaign
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on Earth. It has some of Australia’s most spectacular protected areas
Recently I visited lungtalanana island, once called Clarke Island, with the mob from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. They’re undertaking a cultural restoration project on the
“For modern Australia to say no, I think that’s their loss. I feel sorry for them. But I mostly feel sorry for Country and our future generations.”
Voice of Country program lead and ISC Indigenous Ambassador, Richard Swain reflects on the referendum outcome and the journey to heal Country.
These findings are part of the ANAO report Management of Threatened Species and Ecological Communities under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 tabled today in the Australian Parliament.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Australia has to be ready to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and a jobs-rich conservation and land management program could be just the ticket.
Volunteer firefighter and wildlife carer calls for all-out attack on feral animals in fire zones scorched by this summer’s catastrophic bushfires.
Australia’s first Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer has been in place for a year, so now is a good time to review the success of the position.
Australia’s new ten-year biodiversity strategy is a huge disappointment for invasive species and for biodiversity in general.
Just before Mother’s Day every year millions of flowers from across the world flood in to Australia. It is one of the most dangerous days on our calendar.
Protecting Australia from invasive species is not just for the ‘professionals’; the community could play a much larger role.
A stunning new book by Kirsha Kaechele begs the question, can we see invasive species as not just a problem to be exterminated, but also as a potential asset?
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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.
