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The Invasive Species Council is urging the federal government to reject a pet industry push to allow the import of exotic dubia cockroaches, warning the species could pose a threat to Australian wildlife and establish across parts of tropical and subtropical Australia.
A new independent review confirms the treatments used to combat fire ants pose minimal risk to human health when used as directed. The review, conducted by independent toxicologists at SLR Consulting Australia, found no published peer-reviewed scientific evidence linking the treatment products used by the National Fire Ant Eradication Program to multiple chemical sensitivity or allergies.
Australia’s growing invasive species crisis will be taken to the world stage at the United Nations climate summit in Türkiye this week, with a young First Nations leader calling for greater international recognition of the threat invasive species pose to wildlife, climate resilience and Indigenous peoples’ ability to care for Country.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a landmark $28 million commitment to stop cane toads invading Western Australia’s Pilbara region,
New government report cards blocked from public release have revealed Australia is making little progress against 2 of its most
Every Halloween, we invite monsters into our homes. Vampires, zombies, murderous clowns – all reassuringly imaginary. I find it harder to be frightened by them these days. I spend too much of my working life contemplating creatures whose real-life talents would be rejected by a horror screenwriter as excessive.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a NSW Land and Environment Court decision dismissing another legal challenge to feral horse control in a national park, clearing the way for control operations to resume in Yuraygir National Park.
The Invasive Species Council has obtained and released a government report card that was blocked from public release, revealing feral deer are spreading across Australia, with governments failing to contain their range or keep pace with their growing impacts.
The Australian Government is being urged to abandon plans to reopen widespread live parrot imports, with conservationists warning the move could expose two of Australia’s most iconic endangered cockatoos to new and potentially deadly diseases.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a decision by the Inspector-General of Biosecurity to launch an independent review into the biosecurity failures exposed by the recent fire ant incursion at Sydney’s Enfield freight terminal.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed Tasmania’s new plan to tackle feral deer around towns and communities, but warned the funding and lack of firm eradication targets fall well short of what is needed to stop growing deer populations that are threatening motorists, damaging farms and spreading into the environment.
The Invasive Species Council is warning south-east Queensland residents to be on the lookout for fire ants and floating fire ant rafts as heavy rain and flash flooding hit parts of the region.
The Invasive Species Council says the discovery of fire ant nests at a Defence base in Cabarlah, north of Toowoomba, is a stark reminder that only full eradication of fire ants can stop outlier outbreaks from occurring.
The Invasive Species Council is calling for an urgent independent review of Australia’s biosecurity surveillance system after learning a major Sydney freight terminal where fire ants may have been undetected for 12 months or more was fully compliant with Commonwealth requirements.
There probably aren’t many political strategists sitting around campaign headquarters talking about feral deer. Perhaps they should be.
Our protected areas are being trashed, trampled, choked and polluted by an onslaught of invaders. Invasive species are already the overwhelming driver of our animal extinction rate, and are expected to cause 75 of the next 100 extinctions.
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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.
