Every day our unique wildlife from numbats to night parrots – found nowhere else on Earth – are being pushed to the brink by invasive species. Our precious places are being trashed and trampled by feral animals and choked by weeds.
Tasmania’s unique environment, economy, and communities are under threat frominvasive species. Invasive species, including feral deer, cats, pigs, goats, and weeds, imposesubstantial financial burdens, costing
Nature in Queensland is a precious asset that must be protected.
A few deer were released in Victoria 150 years ago for game hunting and over timelegislation was developed to support the hunting resource and promote
Extinctions are holes torn in the fabric of life, and Australia is ragged from having so many species ripped out. This report examines the causes of modern extinctions in Australia to find that invasive species have caused the vast majority of losses since 1960.
How did the ‘independent survey’ of feral horse numbers conducted by brumby advocates measure up as a survey method? Should it replace the Distance Sampling method currently used by the NSW government?
Environmental organisations have written to Ministers and the Threatened Species Commissioner, seeking intervention on the imminent extinction of the galaxias species.
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) are rightly considered a super-pest globally
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
A fact sheet with information about red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) and the serious threat posed to Australia’s environment, agriculture and way of life.
Sustainable funding is critical for a strong biosecurity system and, therefore, protecting Australia’s economy, environment and communities.
Every day our unique wildlife from numbats to night parrots – found nowhere else on Earth – are being pushed to the brink by invasive species. Our precious places are being trashed and trampled by feral animals and choked by weeds.
Tasmania’s unique environment, economy, and communities are under threat frominvasive species. Invasive species, including feral deer, cats, pigs, goats, and weeds, imposesubstantial financial burdens, costing
Nature in Queensland is a precious asset that must be protected.
A few deer were released in Victoria 150 years ago for game hunting and over timelegislation was developed to support the hunting resource and promote
Extinctions are holes torn in the fabric of life, and Australia is ragged from having so many species ripped out. This report examines the causes of modern extinctions in Australia to find that invasive species have caused the vast majority of losses since 1960.
How did the ‘independent survey’ of feral horse numbers conducted by brumby advocates measure up as a survey method? Should it replace the Distance Sampling method currently used by the NSW government?
Environmental organisations have written to Ministers and the Threatened Species Commissioner, seeking intervention on the imminent extinction of the galaxias species.
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) are rightly considered a super-pest globally
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
A fact sheet with information about red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) and the serious threat posed to Australia’s environment, agriculture and way of life.
Sustainable funding is critical for a strong biosecurity system and, therefore, protecting Australia’s economy, environment and communities.
Every day our unique wildlife from numbats to night parrots – found nowhere else on Earth – are being pushed to the brink by invasive species. Our precious places are being trashed and trampled by feral animals and choked by weeds.
Tasmania’s unique environment, economy, and communities are under threat frominvasive species. Invasive species, including feral deer, cats, pigs, goats, and weeds, imposesubstantial financial burdens, costing
Nature in Queensland is a precious asset that must be protected.
A few deer were released in Victoria 150 years ago for game hunting and over timelegislation was developed to support the hunting resource and promote
Extinctions are holes torn in the fabric of life, and Australia is ragged from having so many species ripped out. This report examines the causes of modern extinctions in Australia to find that invasive species have caused the vast majority of losses since 1960.
How did the ‘independent survey’ of feral horse numbers conducted by brumby advocates measure up as a survey method? Should it replace the Distance Sampling method currently used by the NSW government?
Environmental organisations have written to Ministers and the Threatened Species Commissioner, seeking intervention on the imminent extinction of the galaxias species.
Tasmania is a remarkable island state with native animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, some of the most spectacular protected areas in Australia, and highly valued agriculture, forestry, and tourism sectors.
Invasive species are a major driver of extinction around the world. Controlling these species has proven difficult and expensive. A strategy that has been continually proposed is to commercialise the control of overabundant invasives, i.e. eat our way out of the invasive species problem. Unfortunately, this has many issues.
These documents, made public by the Invasive Species Council, outline the Queensland government’s fire ant eradication budget & work plan.
Red Imported Fire Ants (RIFA) are rightly considered a super-pest globally
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
While many positive elements of the former strategy are worth retaining, developing this new strategy provides an opportunity for new ideas and improvements – as suggested in this submission.
A fact sheet with information about red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) and the serious threat posed to Australia’s environment, agriculture and way of life.
Sustainable funding is critical for a strong biosecurity system and, therefore, protecting Australia’s economy, environment and communities.
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The Invasive Species Council was formed in 2002 to seek stronger laws, policies and programs to protect nature from harmful pests, weeds and diseases.
The Invasive Species Council acknowledges the Traditional Custodians throughout Australia and their connections to land and sea. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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.
