Norfolk Island Archives - Invasive Species Council

Critically endangered Norfolk Island green parrot. Photo: Luis Ortiz-Catedral

Ground-breaking project first step on path to restore Norfolk Island

27 October, 2021

For the first time ever the native vegetation of Norfolk Island has been mapped, both as it exists now and before European arrival.

Building Norfolk Island’s conservation foundations

31 July, 2020

Remote Norfolk Island is a haven for wildlife found nowhere else on the planet. But the survival of many is directly threatened by invasive species.

Climate change increases threats to Australian native wildlife

Climate change and invasive species

30 April, 2020

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

Diver with Humphead Wrasse, Great Barrier Reef. Photo: Flickr | brewbooks

Environment Health Australia

30 April, 2020

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

Cruise ships are one of several pathways by which new invasive species can reach Norfolk Island. Photo: Thomas Huxley | CC BY-ND 2.0

Norfolk Island conservation project

7 February, 2018

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.

Australia must rescue Norfolk Island wildlife from dangerous invaders

22 November, 2017

The Australian Government must ramp up safeguards to protect Norfolk Island’s threatened wildlife from invasive species, a report released today by the Invasive Species Council and Island Conservation warns.

Norfolk Island: Protecting an ocean jewel

22 November, 2017

The release of our report Norfolk Island: Protecting an Ocean Jewel, sets a path for reversing the decline of many threatened species on the island and eradicating harmful invaders.

Scrub myrtle (Rhodamnia rubsecens) has been so badly hit by myrtle rust since the disease reached Australia in 2010 that is was nominated for listing as critically endangered. Photo: Tim Low

Myrtle rust plant scourge spreads to New Zealand

17 May, 2017

New Zealanders have just discovered that the serious plant fungal disease, myrtle rust, has arrived on their shores. What can they learn from Australia’s experience?

South African preying mantis detected in Victoria. Photo: Adam Edmonds | BowerBird.org.au

Protecting a treasured island from invasive species

16 May, 2017

Our CEO Andrew Cox recently visited Norfolk Island in the Pacific to learn about efforts tackling invasive species and building a biosecurity system, the keys to its future conservation success.

Saving Australia’s island wildlife from rats and ants

25 February, 2016

A new partnership between conservation groups is setting out to protect wildlife and restore ecosystems on Australian islands.

Can the Norfolk Island parakeet dodge extinction once and for all?

11 December, 2015

The critically endangered Norfolk Island parrot – known to locals as the Green Parrot – has the dubious honour of having to be rescued from the brink of extinction not once, but twice.

Island Arks Symposium IV – Norfolk Island 2016

10 December, 2015

Norfolk Island will play host to the fourth Island Arks Symposium in February 2016, focusing on a range of themes including conservation tourism, new advances in pest control and eradication

Lord Howe Island. Photo: Sydneydawg2006 | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Lord Howe Island rat eradication – restoring the prestige of an island paradise

4 May, 2020

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

Myrtle rust

2 May, 2020

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.

Fire ants. Photo: Mikhail Vasilyev | Unsplash

Invasive ants

1 May, 2020

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

Ground-breaking project first step on path to restore Norfolk Island

27 October, 2021

For the first time ever the native vegetation of Norfolk Island has been mapped, both as it exists now and before European arrival.