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Tasmania wildlife protection must be lifted

Tasmanian Wildlife Regulations Review: Make a submission

22 September, 2021

A review of Tasmania’s wildlife regulations is the perfect time to end the protected ‘wildlife’ status of feral deer.

Report warns Tasmania’s feral deer herd out of control

11 August, 2021

A new strategy for Tasmania’s out-of-control feral deer herd sets ambitious target of bringing population down to 10,000 by 2032.

Victorian Deer Control Community Network

18 June, 2021

The Victorian Deer Control Community Network provides a platform for statewide collaboration over matters related to feral deer.

Tassie deer spotters

22 February, 2021

If you’ve seen fallow deer while bushwalking, fishing, or even in your neighbourhood report the sighting to the Tassie Deer Spotters iNaturalist page.

Feral deer in Tasmania

30 November, 2020

Tasmania needs a comprehensive feral deer management strategy that reduces the destructive impacts of deer and protects the environment and farmers.

Careful where you tread! Pseudoscleropodium purum is an invasive moss that reproduces by fragmentation, making it easy to spread.

A cautious bushcarer gathers no moss

4 April, 2018

To the untrained eye this moss in the foothills of Hobart’s kunanyi/Mt Wellington looks like a natural part of the landscape, but dig a little deeper and you’ll discover it holds a nasty little secret.

Liberals’ deer hunting policy no solution to World Heritage threat

27 February, 2018

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.

Passion for animal eco-warriors earns Tassie author national gong

20 December, 2017

Tassie author Nic Gill has been awarded one of our Froggatt Awards for her extraordinary book Animal Eco-Warriors.

Feral deer could occupy nearly all of Australia

22 August, 2017

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.

Tasmanian bumblebee decision defies the evidence

22 August, 2017

A Senate environment committee that endorsed the commercial use of Tasmanian feral bumblebees seemed oblivious to the serious impacts this invasive species can cause.

Dr Robert Puckett in Canberra on day two of our national emergency fire ant tour.

Fire ant eradication: inching towards approval one state at a time

5 April, 2017

All governments must come to a unanimous decision to boosted funding for red fire ant eradication. So how close are we to getting the unanimous support needed?

Wilderness adventurers clean out Tasmania’s sea spurge threat

29 December, 2016

They call themselves Sea Spurge Remote Area Teams – SPRATS for short – and since 2007 they’ve been at the cutting-edge of ‘adventure conservation’.

Bushwalkers win national gong for cleaning up Tasmania’s sea spurge scourge

18 December, 2016

Bushwalkers who have scoured Tasmania’s wild southwest coast as part of a ten-year, remote area weeding program have been awarded a national gong for their efforts.

Cradle Mountain, Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area

Feral deer in Tasmania: Degustation or infestation?

15 September, 2016

Industrial-scale processing of meat harvested from Tasmania’s growing feral deer population would create another barrier to listing deer as a pest species.

Be on the look out for myrtle rust if you are in Tasmania. Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 2.0

Biosecurity and pest news from across the country – April 2016

21 April, 2016

A wrap-up of biosecurity and invasive species management news from across Australia – April 2016

Tasmanian Wildlife Regulations Review: Make a submission

22 September, 2021

A review of Tasmania’s wildlife regulations is the perfect time to end the protected ‘wildlife’ status of feral deer.