The Invasive Species Council is calling on the Queensland government and Brisbane City Council to urgently develop a dedicated rapid response plan for the polyphagous shot-hole borer, warning Brisbane’s iconic urban trees could be highly vulnerable if the destructive invasive pest arrives in the state.
Australia’s extinction crisis doesn’t begin when the last animal dies. It begins much earlier – when people stop noticing what’s missing.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the appointment of Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith as Australia’s new Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer (CEBO), saying the role is critical to strengthening Australia’s defences against invasive species and emerging environmental threats.
The Invasive Species Council says the latest feral horse population survey results show a huge, but not unexpected, population rebound in parts of Kosciuszko National Park where aerial control was paused last year, highlighting the urgent need to scrap the retention zones that were put in place by the NSW government back in 2021.
A Victorian landholder says she has been blocked from controlling invasive hog deer on her property due to restrictive and outdated state laws.
New research has revealed nearly half of Sydney’s urban trees could be vulnerable to one of the world’s most destructive invasive species – the polyphagous shot-hole borer – prompting urgent calls for surveillance and preparedness as it proliferates in the west.
The Invasive Species Council has warned the federal budget fails to match the scale of Australia’s invasive species crisis, with cuts to key pest and weed programs and ongoing short-term funding locking in uncertainty for frontline efforts.
If you followed the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking Australia’s environmental debate begins and ends with climate targets, logging battles and development fights. But that’s not the whole picture.
Victoria’s natural environment will suffer and communities will be left to bear the cost of worsening invasive species threats after the state budget entrenched cuts to frontline roles and failed to deliver meaningful new investment in pest control.
The Invasive Species Council is encouraging the state government to make the most of the opportunity to remove feral deer from Deep Creek National Park, as part of its recovery plan from the bushfire that burnt thousands of hectares earlier this year.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed Tasmania’s draft Threatened Species Strategy as a missed opportunity to stop extinctions, warning it fails to address the biggest threats of biodiversity loss – including invasive species.
New satellite images released by NASA showing Australia’s Red Centre turning green should not be mistaken for good news, the Invasive Species Council has warned, with much of the growth likely to be invasive buffel grass – a fast-spreading weed that is priming the landscape for future bushfire disasters.
A winter blitz to remove feral cats is now underway on Kangaroo Island – and it could deliver a world-first.
An independent review of Australia’s fire ant eradication program has confirmed the nation is on track with its plan to eliminate one of the world’s worst invasive species – but the Invasive Species Council warns progress will be at risk if funding is not continued beyond next year.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a major yellow crazy ant eradication milestone in Far North Queensland, saying the success shows what sustained investment can achieve – and why the federal government must prevent a looming Saving Native Species funding cliff in the budget in a few weeks.
The Invasive Species Council is calling on the Queensland government and Brisbane City Council to urgently develop a dedicated rapid response plan for the polyphagous shot-hole borer, warning Brisbane’s iconic urban trees could be highly vulnerable if the destructive invasive pest arrives in the state.
Australia’s extinction crisis doesn’t begin when the last animal dies. It begins much earlier – when people stop noticing what’s missing.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the appointment of Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith as Australia’s new Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer (CEBO), saying the role is critical to strengthening Australia’s defences against invasive species and emerging environmental threats.
The Invasive Species Council says the latest feral horse population survey results show a huge, but not unexpected, population rebound in parts of Kosciuszko National Park where aerial control was paused last year, highlighting the urgent need to scrap the retention zones that were put in place by the NSW government back in 2021.
A Victorian landholder says she has been blocked from controlling invasive hog deer on her property due to restrictive and outdated state laws.
New research has revealed nearly half of Sydney’s urban trees could be vulnerable to one of the world’s most destructive invasive species – the polyphagous shot-hole borer – prompting urgent calls for surveillance and preparedness as it proliferates in the west.
The Invasive Species Council has warned the federal budget fails to match the scale of Australia’s invasive species crisis, with cuts to key pest and weed programs and ongoing short-term funding locking in uncertainty for frontline efforts.
If you followed the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking Australia’s environmental debate begins and ends with climate targets, logging battles and development fights. But that’s not the whole picture.
Victoria’s natural environment will suffer and communities will be left to bear the cost of worsening invasive species threats after the state budget entrenched cuts to frontline roles and failed to deliver meaningful new investment in pest control.
The Invasive Species Council is encouraging the state government to make the most of the opportunity to remove feral deer from Deep Creek National Park, as part of its recovery plan from the bushfire that burnt thousands of hectares earlier this year.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed Tasmania’s draft Threatened Species Strategy as a missed opportunity to stop extinctions, warning it fails to address the biggest threats of biodiversity loss – including invasive species.
New satellite images released by NASA showing Australia’s Red Centre turning green should not be mistaken for good news, the Invasive Species Council has warned, with much of the growth likely to be invasive buffel grass – a fast-spreading weed that is priming the landscape for future bushfire disasters.
A winter blitz to remove feral cats is now underway on Kangaroo Island – and it could deliver a world-first.
An independent review of Australia’s fire ant eradication program has confirmed the nation is on track with its plan to eliminate one of the world’s worst invasive species – but the Invasive Species Council warns progress will be at risk if funding is not continued beyond next year.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a major yellow crazy ant eradication milestone in Far North Queensland, saying the success shows what sustained investment can achieve – and why the federal government must prevent a looming Saving Native Species funding cliff in the budget in a few weeks.
The Invasive Species Council is calling on the Queensland government and Brisbane City Council to urgently develop a dedicated rapid response plan for the polyphagous shot-hole borer, warning Brisbane’s iconic urban trees could be highly vulnerable if the destructive invasive pest arrives in the state.
Australia’s extinction crisis doesn’t begin when the last animal dies. It begins much earlier – when people stop noticing what’s missing.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the appointment of Dr Gabrielle Vivian-Smith as Australia’s new Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer (CEBO), saying the role is critical to strengthening Australia’s defences against invasive species and emerging environmental threats.
The Invasive Species Council says the latest feral horse population survey results show a huge, but not unexpected, population rebound in parts of Kosciuszko National Park where aerial control was paused last year, highlighting the urgent need to scrap the retention zones that were put in place by the NSW government back in 2021.
A Victorian landholder says she has been blocked from controlling invasive hog deer on her property due to restrictive and outdated state laws.
New research has revealed nearly half of Sydney’s urban trees could be vulnerable to one of the world’s most destructive invasive species – the polyphagous shot-hole borer – prompting urgent calls for surveillance and preparedness as it proliferates in the west.
The Invasive Species Council has warned the federal budget fails to match the scale of Australia’s invasive species crisis, with cuts to key pest and weed programs and ongoing short-term funding locking in uncertainty for frontline efforts.
If you followed the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking Australia’s environmental debate begins and ends with climate targets, logging battles and development fights. But that’s not the whole picture.
Victoria’s natural environment will suffer and communities will be left to bear the cost of worsening invasive species threats after the state budget entrenched cuts to frontline roles and failed to deliver meaningful new investment in pest control.
The Invasive Species Council is encouraging the state government to make the most of the opportunity to remove feral deer from Deep Creek National Park, as part of its recovery plan from the bushfire that burnt thousands of hectares earlier this year.
The Invasive Species Council has slammed Tasmania’s draft Threatened Species Strategy as a missed opportunity to stop extinctions, warning it fails to address the biggest threats of biodiversity loss – including invasive species.
New satellite images released by NASA showing Australia’s Red Centre turning green should not be mistaken for good news, the Invasive Species Council has warned, with much of the growth likely to be invasive buffel grass – a fast-spreading weed that is priming the landscape for future bushfire disasters.
A winter blitz to remove feral cats is now underway on Kangaroo Island – and it could deliver a world-first.
An independent review of Australia’s fire ant eradication program has confirmed the nation is on track with its plan to eliminate one of the world’s worst invasive species – but the Invasive Species Council warns progress will be at risk if funding is not continued beyond next year.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a major yellow crazy ant eradication milestone in Far North Queensland, saying the success shows what sustained investment can achieve – and why the federal government must prevent a looming Saving Native Species funding cliff in the budget in a few weeks.
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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.
