Queensland’s war on fire ants threatened without national and state help
19 November, 2015
The rest of Australia must back a long-term plan to help Queensland eradicate vicious red fire ants.
The rest of Australia must back a long-term plan to help Queensland eradicate vicious red fire ants.
The NSW Biosecurity Bill, introduced into Parliament this week, is missing important accountability measures agreed by the NSW Government when the Bill was first introduced last year.
Feral animals, weeds and diseases will continue to push Australian species towards extinction unless the Federal Government ramps up efforts to stamp out new threats before they take hold.
The Tasmanian Government must act now to stop feral deer numbers exploding or else the agricultural and environmental damage they cause will quickly become overwhelming.
Australia is ill-prepared, ill-equipped and neglectful when it comes to protecting its borders from devastating new invasive species.
The passage of the Biosecurity Bill through the Senate today marks a squandered reform opportunity and a refusal to address deficiencies that would stem the flow of dangerous invasive species into Australia.
Invading ant supercolonies are threatening to turn Australia into an environmental, agricultural and social basketcase, the Invasive Species Council warned today.
A quick-thinking Belrose resident has saved Sydney from becoming ground zero for an invasion of Asian black-spined toads, which have the potential to be even more devastating than the cane toad.
The Australian parliament is a step closer to adopting deficient biosecurity laws after the senate review of the Biosecurity Bill 2014 failed to address major deficiencies in accountability and environmental protection.
Discovery of red imported fire ants in Sydney this week needs to be the wake-up call that prompts state and federal governments to act more aggressively to keep Australia fire ant free.
New biosecurity laws being rushed through NSW Parliament this week will fail to address the state’s growing weed, feral animal and disease threats.
Witnesses in two days of hearings in Hobart and Sydney will reveal details about the poor preparations to combat deadly myrtle rust and Australia’s flagging efforts to prevent devastating tramp ants invading northern Australia.
A Senate inquiry into stopping new invasive species causing environmental damage will be told tomorrow the country’s defences are failing and need a massive overhaul.
A Senate inquiry into stopping new invasive species causing environmental damage will be told tomorrow the country’s defences are failing and need a massive overhaul.
The NSW Government has failed to adopt a widely supported weed reform package proposed by NSW’s independent commission, thus guaranteeing the state’s weed problems will continue to grow.
The rest of Australia must back a long-term plan to help Queensland eradicate vicious red fire ants.
The NSW Biosecurity Bill, introduced into Parliament this week, is missing important accountability measures agreed by the NSW Government when the Bill was first introduced last year.
Feral animals, weeds and diseases will continue to push Australian species towards extinction unless the Federal Government ramps up efforts to stamp out new threats before they take hold.
The Tasmanian Government must act now to stop feral deer numbers exploding or else the agricultural and environmental damage they cause will quickly become overwhelming.
Australia is ill-prepared, ill-equipped and neglectful when it comes to protecting its borders from devastating new invasive species.
The passage of the Biosecurity Bill through the Senate today marks a squandered reform opportunity and a refusal to address deficiencies that would stem the flow of dangerous invasive species into Australia.
Invading ant supercolonies are threatening to turn Australia into an environmental, agricultural and social basketcase, the Invasive Species Council warned today.
A quick-thinking Belrose resident has saved Sydney from becoming ground zero for an invasion of Asian black-spined toads, which have the potential to be even more devastating than the cane toad.
The Australian parliament is a step closer to adopting deficient biosecurity laws after the senate review of the Biosecurity Bill 2014 failed to address major deficiencies in accountability and environmental protection.
Discovery of red imported fire ants in Sydney this week needs to be the wake-up call that prompts state and federal governments to act more aggressively to keep Australia fire ant free.
New biosecurity laws being rushed through NSW Parliament this week will fail to address the state’s growing weed, feral animal and disease threats.
Witnesses in two days of hearings in Hobart and Sydney will reveal details about the poor preparations to combat deadly myrtle rust and Australia’s flagging efforts to prevent devastating tramp ants invading northern Australia.
A Senate inquiry into stopping new invasive species causing environmental damage will be told tomorrow the country’s defences are failing and need a massive overhaul.
A Senate inquiry into stopping new invasive species causing environmental damage will be told tomorrow the country’s defences are failing and need a massive overhaul.
The NSW Government has failed to adopt a widely supported weed reform package proposed by NSW’s independent commission, thus guaranteeing the state’s weed problems will continue to grow.
The rest of Australia must back a long-term plan to help Queensland eradicate vicious red fire ants.
The NSW Biosecurity Bill, introduced into Parliament this week, is missing important accountability measures agreed by the NSW Government when the Bill was first introduced last year.
Feral animals, weeds and diseases will continue to push Australian species towards extinction unless the Federal Government ramps up efforts to stamp out new threats before they take hold.
The Tasmanian Government must act now to stop feral deer numbers exploding or else the agricultural and environmental damage they cause will quickly become overwhelming.
Australia is ill-prepared, ill-equipped and neglectful when it comes to protecting its borders from devastating new invasive species.
The passage of the Biosecurity Bill through the Senate today marks a squandered reform opportunity and a refusal to address deficiencies that would stem the flow of dangerous invasive species into Australia.
Invading ant supercolonies are threatening to turn Australia into an environmental, agricultural and social basketcase, the Invasive Species Council warned today.
A quick-thinking Belrose resident has saved Sydney from becoming ground zero for an invasion of Asian black-spined toads, which have the potential to be even more devastating than the cane toad.
The Australian parliament is a step closer to adopting deficient biosecurity laws after the senate review of the Biosecurity Bill 2014 failed to address major deficiencies in accountability and environmental protection.
Discovery of red imported fire ants in Sydney this week needs to be the wake-up call that prompts state and federal governments to act more aggressively to keep Australia fire ant free.
New biosecurity laws being rushed through NSW Parliament this week will fail to address the state’s growing weed, feral animal and disease threats.
Witnesses in two days of hearings in Hobart and Sydney will reveal details about the poor preparations to combat deadly myrtle rust and Australia’s flagging efforts to prevent devastating tramp ants invading northern Australia.
A Senate inquiry into stopping new invasive species causing environmental damage will be told tomorrow the country’s defences are failing and need a massive overhaul.
A Senate inquiry into stopping new invasive species causing environmental damage will be told tomorrow the country’s defences are failing and need a massive overhaul.
The NSW Government has failed to adopt a widely supported weed reform package proposed by NSW’s independent commission, thus guaranteeing the state’s weed problems will continue to grow.
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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.