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You might think of the bugs in your backyard – or the intruders in your home – as pests. But for Australia’s native insects, they are vital workers, playing an essential role in pollination, nutrient cycling and natural pest control.
The Invasive Species Council and Australian Land Conservation Alliance are warning that a failure to commit to ongoing funding for the Saving Native Species program in today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has pushed Australia’s flagship environmental recovery efforts into a funding ‘valley of death’, leaving nationally significant projects exposed to a damaging and avoidable funding gap.
The Invasive Species Council has extended its deepest condolences to the families and communities affected by the devastating Bondi attack, acknowledging the profound shock and grief felt across New South Wales.
As summer kicks in and families head outdoors across northern NSW and south-east Queensland, the Invasive Species Council is urging holidaymakers to help protect their favourite places from one of Australia’s most dangerous invasive pests – fire ants.
A groundbreaking Queensland project that turns invasive fish into fertiliser – helping heal the Mary River and protect endangered species – is in limbo after its funding ran out.
The Invasive Species Council and politicians across the political spectrum have hailed a landmark victory for nature, with both houses of NSW Parliament voting to finally repeal the controversial Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act – ending years of political protection for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
A delegation from Queensland has travelled to Australian Parliament House to meet with the Albanese Government and Coalition Opposition seeking urgent action to fight fire ants.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Victorian Government’s decision to permit the use of Felixer grooming traps for feral cat control – calling it a landmark step that will turbo-charge efforts to protect threatened wildlife and give long-stalled island eradication projects their best chance of success.
The Invasive Species Council is calling for a full investigation of allegations of serious enforcement failings inside Australia’s federal biosecurity agency, reported in a new review by the Inspector-General of Biosecurity.
From 17–23 November, Australians are being urged to step outside, look closer, and discover the secret world beneath their feet during Bugs in My Backyard Week – a brand-new national event encouraging families, schools and nature lovers to photograph and record the mini-beasts living all around them.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed new federal funding to support feral deer management in South Australia, saying it’s an encouraging boost for the state’s ambitious eradication effort – but more investment is urgently needed to finish the job.
When I first went to Central Australia in the early nineties, the desert had a rhythm.
When I went back there last month, that rhythm was gone.
The Invasive Species Council celebrates the Australian Government’s decision to elevate the role of the Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer, saying it sends a strong signal that protecting Australia’s environment from invasive species is being taken seriously at the highest levels of government.
The Invasive Species Council has announced the appointment of its long-serving former CEO, Andrew Cox, as a new Ambassador – a role that will see him continue advancing Australia’s leadership on invasive species prevention and management at the global level.
Late on a Friday afternoon – while most Victorians were heading home for the weekend – the Allan Government quietly slipped out its long-awaited response to the Wildlife Act review.
You might think of the bugs in your backyard – or the intruders in your home – as pests. But for Australia’s native insects, they are vital workers, playing an essential role in pollination, nutrient cycling and natural pest control.
The Invasive Species Council and Australian Land Conservation Alliance are warning that a failure to commit to ongoing funding for the Saving Native Species program in today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has pushed Australia’s flagship environmental recovery efforts into a funding ‘valley of death’, leaving nationally significant projects exposed to a damaging and avoidable funding gap.
The Invasive Species Council has extended its deepest condolences to the families and communities affected by the devastating Bondi attack, acknowledging the profound shock and grief felt across New South Wales.
As summer kicks in and families head outdoors across northern NSW and south-east Queensland, the Invasive Species Council is urging holidaymakers to help protect their favourite places from one of Australia’s most dangerous invasive pests – fire ants.
A groundbreaking Queensland project that turns invasive fish into fertiliser – helping heal the Mary River and protect endangered species – is in limbo after its funding ran out.
The Invasive Species Council and politicians across the political spectrum have hailed a landmark victory for nature, with both houses of NSW Parliament voting to finally repeal the controversial Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act – ending years of political protection for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
A delegation from Queensland has travelled to Australian Parliament House to meet with the Albanese Government and Coalition Opposition seeking urgent action to fight fire ants.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Victorian Government’s decision to permit the use of Felixer grooming traps for feral cat control – calling it a landmark step that will turbo-charge efforts to protect threatened wildlife and give long-stalled island eradication projects their best chance of success.
The Invasive Species Council is calling for a full investigation of allegations of serious enforcement failings inside Australia’s federal biosecurity agency, reported in a new review by the Inspector-General of Biosecurity.
From 17–23 November, Australians are being urged to step outside, look closer, and discover the secret world beneath their feet during Bugs in My Backyard Week – a brand-new national event encouraging families, schools and nature lovers to photograph and record the mini-beasts living all around them.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed new federal funding to support feral deer management in South Australia, saying it’s an encouraging boost for the state’s ambitious eradication effort – but more investment is urgently needed to finish the job.
When I first went to Central Australia in the early nineties, the desert had a rhythm.
When I went back there last month, that rhythm was gone.
The Invasive Species Council celebrates the Australian Government’s decision to elevate the role of the Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer, saying it sends a strong signal that protecting Australia’s environment from invasive species is being taken seriously at the highest levels of government.
The Invasive Species Council has announced the appointment of its long-serving former CEO, Andrew Cox, as a new Ambassador – a role that will see him continue advancing Australia’s leadership on invasive species prevention and management at the global level.
Late on a Friday afternoon – while most Victorians were heading home for the weekend – the Allan Government quietly slipped out its long-awaited response to the Wildlife Act review.
You might think of the bugs in your backyard – or the intruders in your home – as pests. But for Australia’s native insects, they are vital workers, playing an essential role in pollination, nutrient cycling and natural pest control.
The Invasive Species Council and Australian Land Conservation Alliance are warning that a failure to commit to ongoing funding for the Saving Native Species program in today’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook has pushed Australia’s flagship environmental recovery efforts into a funding ‘valley of death’, leaving nationally significant projects exposed to a damaging and avoidable funding gap.
The Invasive Species Council has extended its deepest condolences to the families and communities affected by the devastating Bondi attack, acknowledging the profound shock and grief felt across New South Wales.
As summer kicks in and families head outdoors across northern NSW and south-east Queensland, the Invasive Species Council is urging holidaymakers to help protect their favourite places from one of Australia’s most dangerous invasive pests – fire ants.
A groundbreaking Queensland project that turns invasive fish into fertiliser – helping heal the Mary River and protect endangered species – is in limbo after its funding ran out.
The Invasive Species Council and politicians across the political spectrum have hailed a landmark victory for nature, with both houses of NSW Parliament voting to finally repeal the controversial Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act – ending years of political protection for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
A delegation from Queensland has travelled to Australian Parliament House to meet with the Albanese Government and Coalition Opposition seeking urgent action to fight fire ants.
The Invasive Species Council has welcomed the Victorian Government’s decision to permit the use of Felixer grooming traps for feral cat control – calling it a landmark step that will turbo-charge efforts to protect threatened wildlife and give long-stalled island eradication projects their best chance of success.
The Invasive Species Council is calling for a full investigation of allegations of serious enforcement failings inside Australia’s federal biosecurity agency, reported in a new review by the Inspector-General of Biosecurity.
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.
But you can help to turn this around and create a wildlife revival in Australia.
From numbats to night parrots, a tax-deductible donation today can help defend our wildlife against the threat of invasive weeds, predators, and diseases.
As the only national advocacy environment group dedicated to stopping this mega threat, your gift will make a big difference.
A silent crisis is unfolding across Australia. Every year, billions of native animals are hunted and killed by cats and foxes. Fire ants continue to spread and threaten human health. And the deadly strain of bird flu looms on the horizon. Your donation today will be used to put the invasive species threat in the media, make invasive species a government priority, ensure governments take rapid action to protect nature and our remarkable native wildlife from invasives-led extinction, death and destruction.
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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.
