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The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Tasmanian government’s frank assessment that its current approach to feral deer is not working, saying the review of the state’s deer management plan is an opportunity to finally bring rising deer numbers under control.
Fire ants detected in Sydney’s inner west have been confirmed as a separate overseas incursion, more than 800 kilometres from
There is something badly missing from the increasingly heated debate about feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the release of a draft new national strategy to tackle feral foxes, saying it is a long-overdue opportunity to strengthen Australia’s response to one of its most destructive introduced predators.
Alice Springs community leaders are calling for urgent federal intervention on buffel grass, warning the invasive grass is creating an escalating bushfire, environmental, cultural and economic threat across Central Australia.
A new economic analysis has found completing Australia’s fire ant eradication program would return $35.60 in benefits for every $1 invested – even before many of the costs fire ants would impose on Australian households, wildlife and communities are counted.
The Invasive Species Council has congratulated Senator David Shoebridge on his election as leader of the Australian Greens and Senator Steph Hodgins-May on her election as deputy leader.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed an additional $1.7 million from the Victorian government for feral deer control across Melbourne’s outer east, following growing community concern about deer numbers and their impacts.
A new community deer coordinator trial in western Victoria offers a blueprint for tackling the state’s growing feral deer problem – while exposing how Victoria’s outdated protection of deer as a game species is holding back practical control efforts.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed a united commitment from Australia’s agriculture ministers to keep fire ant eradication on the table, saying the next critical test is whether state, territory and federal treasurers will fund the plan.
Australians know kangaroos and wombats are native, but recognition falls dramatically for quolls and bandicoots, new research has revealed.
As many of us wind down for the weekend, agriculture ministers from across the country will sit down this Friday for a meeting that will decide the future of Australia’s fight against fire ants.
The Invasive Species Council is backing calls from Townsville City Council for ongoing funding from the Queensland and Australian governments for the Townsville Yellow Crazy Ant program.
The first confirmed death of an Australian sea lion from H5 bird flu has raised fears about what could happen if the virus takes hold in the threatened species, as the Invasive Species Council warns Australia needs a much greater investment in helping wildlife survive and recover.
The latest independent veterinary assessment of aerial shooting in Kosciuszko National Park has again found a “notable absence of adverse animal welfare events” and “no feral horses observed were non fatally wounded”, providing further evidence against misinformation being spread about the feral horse control program.
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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.
