Import risk process under review
17 July, 2014
Decisions on imports are likely to be biased by trade considerations while they are made by the head of the agricultural department.
Decisions on imports are likely to be biased by trade considerations while they are made by the head of the agricultural department.
Our new threatened species commissioner, Gregory Andrews, has already put a foot in the right direction by announcing that tackling feral cats will be high on his agenda.
The Australian Senate has set up an inquiry to look into how we can prevent the arrival into Australia of new invasive species impacting on the environment.
In a speech to Parliament, Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon referred favourably to a presentation by Invasive Species Council CEO, Andrew Cox. He also suggested that there should be a federal Minister for Biosecurity.
Australia’s quarantine system is failing to keep out very damaging environmental invaders and our federal parliament should be seeking to determine why that is.
In August 2013 we released results of our national survey of organisations tackling invasive species. More analysis has revealed some startling results.
The federal Budget 2014-15 delivers nothing of much note for environmental biosecurity, although more than $3 million over four years has been allocated for a review of marine pests.
The National Commission of Audit’s just-released report Towards Responsible Government reveals a poor understanding of the environment, biosecurity and the value of independent expertise in governance.
Recent news of 220 cuts to the federal agriculture department targeting frontline biosecurity staff does not bode well for Australia’s preparedness for the growing wave of agricultural and environmental pests.
Prevention is best, but where invasive species have established, eradication, if feasible, is far better than long-term containment and control. This is the well-known hierarchy
The responses to our election survey are in and we can now let you know what the main parties propose to do to address the
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY A MORE RECENT ARTICLE ON THE SAME SUBJECT PUBLISHED 4 SEP 2013 What have we heard so far about
A national survey of conservation, government and landcare groups in Australia has revealed that weeds, invasive animals, and ‘all invasive species’ rank just above habitat loss as the greatest threats to the country’s native plants and animals.
A national survey of conservation, government and landcare groups in Australia has revealed that weeds, invasive animals, and ‘all invasive species’ rank just above habitat loss as the greatest threats to the country’s native plants and animals.
The idea that nutrients are good is deeply embedded in society – driving the profitable vitamin-popping industry and the sale of fertilisers. But nutrients added
Decisions on imports are likely to be biased by trade considerations while they are made by the head of the agricultural department.
Our new threatened species commissioner, Gregory Andrews, has already put a foot in the right direction by announcing that tackling feral cats will be high on his agenda.
The Australian Senate has set up an inquiry to look into how we can prevent the arrival into Australia of new invasive species impacting on the environment.
In a speech to Parliament, Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon referred favourably to a presentation by Invasive Species Council CEO, Andrew Cox. He also suggested that there should be a federal Minister for Biosecurity.
Australia’s quarantine system is failing to keep out very damaging environmental invaders and our federal parliament should be seeking to determine why that is.
In August 2013 we released results of our national survey of organisations tackling invasive species. More analysis has revealed some startling results.
The federal Budget 2014-15 delivers nothing of much note for environmental biosecurity, although more than $3 million over four years has been allocated for a review of marine pests.
The National Commission of Audit’s just-released report Towards Responsible Government reveals a poor understanding of the environment, biosecurity and the value of independent expertise in governance.
Recent news of 220 cuts to the federal agriculture department targeting frontline biosecurity staff does not bode well for Australia’s preparedness for the growing wave of agricultural and environmental pests.
Prevention is best, but where invasive species have established, eradication, if feasible, is far better than long-term containment and control. This is the well-known hierarchy
The responses to our election survey are in and we can now let you know what the main parties propose to do to address the
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY A MORE RECENT ARTICLE ON THE SAME SUBJECT PUBLISHED 4 SEP 2013 What have we heard so far about
A national survey of conservation, government and landcare groups in Australia has revealed that weeds, invasive animals, and ‘all invasive species’ rank just above habitat loss as the greatest threats to the country’s native plants and animals.
A national survey of conservation, government and landcare groups in Australia has revealed that weeds, invasive animals, and ‘all invasive species’ rank just above habitat loss as the greatest threats to the country’s native plants and animals.
The idea that nutrients are good is deeply embedded in society – driving the profitable vitamin-popping industry and the sale of fertilisers. But nutrients added
Decisions on imports are likely to be biased by trade considerations while they are made by the head of the agricultural department.
Our new threatened species commissioner, Gregory Andrews, has already put a foot in the right direction by announcing that tackling feral cats will be high on his agenda.
The Australian Senate has set up an inquiry to look into how we can prevent the arrival into Australia of new invasive species impacting on the environment.
In a speech to Parliament, Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon referred favourably to a presentation by Invasive Species Council CEO, Andrew Cox. He also suggested that there should be a federal Minister for Biosecurity.
Australia’s quarantine system is failing to keep out very damaging environmental invaders and our federal parliament should be seeking to determine why that is.
In August 2013 we released results of our national survey of organisations tackling invasive species. More analysis has revealed some startling results.
The federal Budget 2014-15 delivers nothing of much note for environmental biosecurity, although more than $3 million over four years has been allocated for a review of marine pests.
The National Commission of Audit’s just-released report Towards Responsible Government reveals a poor understanding of the environment, biosecurity and the value of independent expertise in governance.
Recent news of 220 cuts to the federal agriculture department targeting frontline biosecurity staff does not bode well for Australia’s preparedness for the growing wave of agricultural and environmental pests.
Prevention is best, but where invasive species have established, eradication, if feasible, is far better than long-term containment and control. This is the well-known hierarchy
The responses to our election survey are in and we can now let you know what the main parties propose to do to address the
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED BY A MORE RECENT ARTICLE ON THE SAME SUBJECT PUBLISHED 4 SEP 2013 What have we heard so far about
A national survey of conservation, government and landcare groups in Australia has revealed that weeds, invasive animals, and ‘all invasive species’ rank just above habitat loss as the greatest threats to the country’s native plants and animals.
A national survey of conservation, government and landcare groups in Australia has revealed that weeds, invasive animals, and ‘all invasive species’ rank just above habitat loss as the greatest threats to the country’s native plants and animals.
The idea that nutrients are good is deeply embedded in society – driving the profitable vitamin-popping industry and the sale of fertilisers. But nutrients added
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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.