Deer eradication within sight on Kangaroo Island
4 April, 2018
Often described as Australia’s Galapagos, Kangaroo Island could soon see the day when it is free of feral deer.
Often described as Australia’s Galapagos, Kangaroo Island could soon see the day when it is free of feral deer.
Plans by a re-elected Tasmanian Liberal government to allow recreational deer hunting in world heritage national parks will have little effect on slowing the spread of feral deer.
The introduction of new crops or livestock can go spectacularly wrong. Question is, are those responsible for promoting new crops and livestock in Australia showing enough caution?
Video footage of a panicked, wild deer out of control on a Melbourne road is a clear sign the Victorian government urgently needs to tackle exploding numbers of the feral animals.
New research has found that almost nowhere in Australia is safe from growing feral deer numbers, with future mapping showing the animals could occupy most of the continent, including the interior.
The NSW government has failed to properly address the growing threat of feral deer, eradication of red-eared slider turtles or the spread of redfin perch.
The NSW government has caved into the hunting lobby in its pest announcement today that fails to address the growing impacts of feral deer on farmers and the environment.
Last year the New Zealand government announced plans to be predator free by 2050, a challenging concept for the many Australians gathered at the Australasian Vertebrate Pest Management
Farmers and landowners arrived in Sydney with an urgent message for the state government – the deer population in New South Wales is exploding and affecting more of the state than ever before.
Industrial-scale processing of meat harvested from Tasmania’s growing feral deer population would create another barrier to listing deer as a pest species.
Victoria needs to catch up with the rest of Australia by listing deer as a pest animal and developing a statewide strategy to contain and manage growing numbers of this feral animal.
The NSW Government is running out of time to declare wild deer, the state’s most urgent feral animal threat, a pest species.
Feral deer are out of control in NSW, and have been declared the state’s ‘most important emerging pest animal threat’.
Leading conservation organisations are urging the NSW Government to fully implement the recommendations of the NSW Natural Resources Commission’s pest animal management review.
We’ve argued for a greater focus on the eradication of new and emerging invasive species in the current NSW pest animal management review.
Often described as Australia’s Galapagos, Kangaroo Island could soon see the day when it is free of feral deer.
Plans by a re-elected Tasmanian Liberal government to allow recreational deer hunting in world heritage national parks will have little effect on slowing the spread of feral deer.
The introduction of new crops or livestock can go spectacularly wrong. Question is, are those responsible for promoting new crops and livestock in Australia showing enough caution?
Video footage of a panicked, wild deer out of control on a Melbourne road is a clear sign the Victorian government urgently needs to tackle exploding numbers of the feral animals.
New research has found that almost nowhere in Australia is safe from growing feral deer numbers, with future mapping showing the animals could occupy most of the continent, including the interior.
The NSW government has failed to properly address the growing threat of feral deer, eradication of red-eared slider turtles or the spread of redfin perch.
The NSW government has caved into the hunting lobby in its pest announcement today that fails to address the growing impacts of feral deer on farmers and the environment.
Last year the New Zealand government announced plans to be predator free by 2050, a challenging concept for the many Australians gathered at the Australasian Vertebrate Pest Management
Farmers and landowners arrived in Sydney with an urgent message for the state government – the deer population in New South Wales is exploding and affecting more of the state than ever before.
Industrial-scale processing of meat harvested from Tasmania’s growing feral deer population would create another barrier to listing deer as a pest species.
Victoria needs to catch up with the rest of Australia by listing deer as a pest animal and developing a statewide strategy to contain and manage growing numbers of this feral animal.
The NSW Government is running out of time to declare wild deer, the state’s most urgent feral animal threat, a pest species.
Feral deer are out of control in NSW, and have been declared the state’s ‘most important emerging pest animal threat’.
Leading conservation organisations are urging the NSW Government to fully implement the recommendations of the NSW Natural Resources Commission’s pest animal management review.
We’ve argued for a greater focus on the eradication of new and emerging invasive species in the current NSW pest animal management review.
Often described as Australia’s Galapagos, Kangaroo Island could soon see the day when it is free of feral deer.
Plans by a re-elected Tasmanian Liberal government to allow recreational deer hunting in world heritage national parks will have little effect on slowing the spread of feral deer.
The introduction of new crops or livestock can go spectacularly wrong. Question is, are those responsible for promoting new crops and livestock in Australia showing enough caution?
Video footage of a panicked, wild deer out of control on a Melbourne road is a clear sign the Victorian government urgently needs to tackle exploding numbers of the feral animals.
New research has found that almost nowhere in Australia is safe from growing feral deer numbers, with future mapping showing the animals could occupy most of the continent, including the interior.
The NSW government has failed to properly address the growing threat of feral deer, eradication of red-eared slider turtles or the spread of redfin perch.
The NSW government has caved into the hunting lobby in its pest announcement today that fails to address the growing impacts of feral deer on farmers and the environment.
Last year the New Zealand government announced plans to be predator free by 2050, a challenging concept for the many Australians gathered at the Australasian Vertebrate Pest Management
Farmers and landowners arrived in Sydney with an urgent message for the state government – the deer population in New South Wales is exploding and affecting more of the state than ever before.
Industrial-scale processing of meat harvested from Tasmania’s growing feral deer population would create another barrier to listing deer as a pest species.
Victoria needs to catch up with the rest of Australia by listing deer as a pest animal and developing a statewide strategy to contain and manage growing numbers of this feral animal.
The NSW Government is running out of time to declare wild deer, the state’s most urgent feral animal threat, a pest species.
Feral deer are out of control in NSW, and have been declared the state’s ‘most important emerging pest animal threat’.
Leading conservation organisations are urging the NSW Government to fully implement the recommendations of the NSW Natural Resources Commission’s pest animal management review.
We’ve argued for a greater focus on the eradication of new and emerging invasive species in the current NSW pest animal management review.
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