Rushed NSW Biosecurity Bill an empty vessel
10 November, 2014
New biosecurity laws being rushed through NSW Parliament this week will fail to address the state’s growing weed, feral animal and disease threats.
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.
Professor Simberloff, the world’s leading thinker on the biology of invasions by weeds, ferals and other pests, is in Hobart, Australia this week to warn of the dangers to Australia’s wildlife from invasive species.
The Victorian Invasive Species Control Bill 2014, tabled in the Victorian Parliament late last week, guarantees Victoria’s already dire invasive species problems will continue to worsen.
Shoring up Australia’s defences against the next cane toad invasion will be front and centre under a Senate inquiry announced today.
A new type of toad found in outer Melbourne that tolerates cooler climates than the cane toad could devastate native wildlife. Its discovery highlights systemic failings in Australia’s enviornmental biosecurity.
A new type of toad found in outer Melbourne that tolerates cooler climates than the cane toad could devastate native wildlife. Its discovery highlights systemic failings in Australia’s enviornmental biosecurity.
Environment groups have praised the NSW Government’s new biosecurity framework as a tool for modernising the state’s approach to weeds, pests and feral animals but want more detail on how it will tackle the impacts of these threats on the environment.
Environment groups have welcomed the draft report released by the NSW Natural Resources Commission into weed management as a ‘game changer’ in helping to rein in one of the state’s worst and most difficult environmental threats.
The outbreak of red imported fire ants at Gladstone shows the need for an inquiry into Australia’s preparedness for new environmental invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council today urged the NSW Government to amend the Bill abolishing Game Council NSW, introduced into Parliament today, to overcome the game hunting culture that is hampering feral animal control in that state.
The Invasive Species Council is calling on all Australian political parties to develop policies that will tackle two of the greatest threats facing our iconic
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.
Professor Simberloff, the world’s leading thinker on the biology of invasions by weeds, ferals and other pests, is in Hobart, Australia this week to warn of the dangers to Australia’s wildlife from invasive species.
The Victorian Invasive Species Control Bill 2014, tabled in the Victorian Parliament late last week, guarantees Victoria’s already dire invasive species problems will continue to worsen.
Shoring up Australia’s defences against the next cane toad invasion will be front and centre under a Senate inquiry announced today.
A new type of toad found in outer Melbourne that tolerates cooler climates than the cane toad could devastate native wildlife. Its discovery highlights systemic failings in Australia’s enviornmental biosecurity.
A new type of toad found in outer Melbourne that tolerates cooler climates than the cane toad could devastate native wildlife. Its discovery highlights systemic failings in Australia’s enviornmental biosecurity.
Environment groups have praised the NSW Government’s new biosecurity framework as a tool for modernising the state’s approach to weeds, pests and feral animals but want more detail on how it will tackle the impacts of these threats on the environment.
Environment groups have welcomed the draft report released by the NSW Natural Resources Commission into weed management as a ‘game changer’ in helping to rein in one of the state’s worst and most difficult environmental threats.
The outbreak of red imported fire ants at Gladstone shows the need for an inquiry into Australia’s preparedness for new environmental invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council today urged the NSW Government to amend the Bill abolishing Game Council NSW, introduced into Parliament today, to overcome the game hunting culture that is hampering feral animal control in that state.
The Invasive Species Council is calling on all Australian political parties to develop policies that will tackle two of the greatest threats facing our iconic
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.
Professor Simberloff, the world’s leading thinker on the biology of invasions by weeds, ferals and other pests, is in Hobart, Australia this week to warn of the dangers to Australia’s wildlife from invasive species.
The Victorian Invasive Species Control Bill 2014, tabled in the Victorian Parliament late last week, guarantees Victoria’s already dire invasive species problems will continue to worsen.
Shoring up Australia’s defences against the next cane toad invasion will be front and centre under a Senate inquiry announced today.
A new type of toad found in outer Melbourne that tolerates cooler climates than the cane toad could devastate native wildlife. Its discovery highlights systemic failings in Australia’s enviornmental biosecurity.
A new type of toad found in outer Melbourne that tolerates cooler climates than the cane toad could devastate native wildlife. Its discovery highlights systemic failings in Australia’s enviornmental biosecurity.
Environment groups have praised the NSW Government’s new biosecurity framework as a tool for modernising the state’s approach to weeds, pests and feral animals but want more detail on how it will tackle the impacts of these threats on the environment.
Environment groups have welcomed the draft report released by the NSW Natural Resources Commission into weed management as a ‘game changer’ in helping to rein in one of the state’s worst and most difficult environmental threats.
The outbreak of red imported fire ants at Gladstone shows the need for an inquiry into Australia’s preparedness for new environmental invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council today urged the NSW Government to amend the Bill abolishing Game Council NSW, introduced into Parliament today, to overcome the game hunting culture that is hampering feral animal control in that state.
The Invasive Species Council is calling on all Australian political parties to develop policies that will tackle two of the greatest threats facing our iconic
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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.