Stopping NSW’s creeping peril
26 August, 2010
August 2010
A report that calls for better weed laws, policies and funding in NSW to tackle weed invasions that are overwhelming authorities and landholders.
August 2010
A report that calls for better weed laws, policies and funding in NSW to tackle weed invasions that are overwhelming authorities and landholders.
ISC supports and advocates the strengthening of recommendations of the 10-year Hawke review of the EPBC Act to improve approaches to invasive species. The recommendations
We have compiled evidence of threats to 28 species and ecological communities to support the listing of ‘Ecosystem degradation, habitat loss and species decline due
The weedy pasture plant tall wheat grass has the potential to invade more than half the state of Victoria and is putting numerous threatened species at risk. It is a far greater threat than the salinity problem it is meant to solve.
We advocate a ‘permittled list’ approach to weeds, which permits the introduction of non-indigenous plants only after a risk assessment finds they are low risk.
May 2009
A paper by WWF-Australia that outlines the strategic approach, design factors and policy objectives and instruments needed to construct a strong and effective national regulatory framework for weeds.
This strategy fails to provide a clear basis for effective action to conserve biodiversity and should therefore be redrafted to: Nominate specific objectives and actions
There is strong evidence that escaped garden plants are having a major adverse impact on Australia’s biodiversity, including threatened species of national environmental significance. The
In Australia, invasive species are one of the most ubiquitous and severe threats to biodiversity. We are notorious for having lost by far the highest number of mammals in recent times, with foxes and cats in most of these extinctions.
In this critique our policy officer Dr Carol Booth discusses ‘Recreational hunting and its place within Australia’, an issue of the Australian Shooters Journal, and asks is hunting conservation?
Along with land clearing and climate change, invasive species are one of the top three threats to Australia’s biodiversity. And yet the country’s Environment Protection
Feral animals cause severe damage to Australian wildlife and ecosystems. We strongly advocate eradication and control of feral animal populations to protect environmental values. Is recreational hunting effective for feral animal control?
The draft management strategy for hog deer in Victoria proposes goals and strategies that are anathema to best practice management of threatening invasive animals and
A preliminary assessment of a Victorian State Government plan inviting expressions of interest from landholders to take part in a scheme to facilitate recreational hunting of quail, duck and deer on private properties.
The Invasive Species Council supports the analysis contained in the draft submission and strongly recommends against allowing the import of savannah cats into Australia. The
August 2010
A report that calls for better weed laws, policies and funding in NSW to tackle weed invasions that are overwhelming authorities and landholders.
ISC supports and advocates the strengthening of recommendations of the 10-year Hawke review of the EPBC Act to improve approaches to invasive species. The recommendations
We have compiled evidence of threats to 28 species and ecological communities to support the listing of ‘Ecosystem degradation, habitat loss and species decline due
The weedy pasture plant tall wheat grass has the potential to invade more than half the state of Victoria and is putting numerous threatened species at risk. It is a far greater threat than the salinity problem it is meant to solve.
We advocate a ‘permittled list’ approach to weeds, which permits the introduction of non-indigenous plants only after a risk assessment finds they are low risk.
May 2009
A paper by WWF-Australia that outlines the strategic approach, design factors and policy objectives and instruments needed to construct a strong and effective national regulatory framework for weeds.
This strategy fails to provide a clear basis for effective action to conserve biodiversity and should therefore be redrafted to: Nominate specific objectives and actions
There is strong evidence that escaped garden plants are having a major adverse impact on Australia’s biodiversity, including threatened species of national environmental significance. The
In Australia, invasive species are one of the most ubiquitous and severe threats to biodiversity. We are notorious for having lost by far the highest number of mammals in recent times, with foxes and cats in most of these extinctions.
In this critique our policy officer Dr Carol Booth discusses ‘Recreational hunting and its place within Australia’, an issue of the Australian Shooters Journal, and asks is hunting conservation?
Along with land clearing and climate change, invasive species are one of the top three threats to Australia’s biodiversity. And yet the country’s Environment Protection
Feral animals cause severe damage to Australian wildlife and ecosystems. We strongly advocate eradication and control of feral animal populations to protect environmental values. Is recreational hunting effective for feral animal control?
The draft management strategy for hog deer in Victoria proposes goals and strategies that are anathema to best practice management of threatening invasive animals and
A preliminary assessment of a Victorian State Government plan inviting expressions of interest from landholders to take part in a scheme to facilitate recreational hunting of quail, duck and deer on private properties.
The Invasive Species Council supports the analysis contained in the draft submission and strongly recommends against allowing the import of savannah cats into Australia. The
August 2010
A report that calls for better weed laws, policies and funding in NSW to tackle weed invasions that are overwhelming authorities and landholders.
ISC supports and advocates the strengthening of recommendations of the 10-year Hawke review of the EPBC Act to improve approaches to invasive species. The recommendations
We have compiled evidence of threats to 28 species and ecological communities to support the listing of ‘Ecosystem degradation, habitat loss and species decline due
The weedy pasture plant tall wheat grass has the potential to invade more than half the state of Victoria and is putting numerous threatened species at risk. It is a far greater threat than the salinity problem it is meant to solve.
We advocate a ‘permittled list’ approach to weeds, which permits the introduction of non-indigenous plants only after a risk assessment finds they are low risk.
May 2009
A paper by WWF-Australia that outlines the strategic approach, design factors and policy objectives and instruments needed to construct a strong and effective national regulatory framework for weeds.
This strategy fails to provide a clear basis for effective action to conserve biodiversity and should therefore be redrafted to: Nominate specific objectives and actions
There is strong evidence that escaped garden plants are having a major adverse impact on Australia’s biodiversity, including threatened species of national environmental significance. The
In Australia, invasive species are one of the most ubiquitous and severe threats to biodiversity. We are notorious for having lost by far the highest number of mammals in recent times, with foxes and cats in most of these extinctions.
In this critique our policy officer Dr Carol Booth discusses ‘Recreational hunting and its place within Australia’, an issue of the Australian Shooters Journal, and asks is hunting conservation?
Along with land clearing and climate change, invasive species are one of the top three threats to Australia’s biodiversity. And yet the country’s Environment Protection
Feral animals cause severe damage to Australian wildlife and ecosystems. We strongly advocate eradication and control of feral animal populations to protect environmental values. Is recreational hunting effective for feral animal control?
The draft management strategy for hog deer in Victoria proposes goals and strategies that are anathema to best practice management of threatening invasive animals and
A preliminary assessment of a Victorian State Government plan inviting expressions of interest from landholders to take part in a scheme to facilitate recreational hunting of quail, duck and deer on private properties.
The Invasive Species Council supports the analysis contained in the draft submission and strongly recommends against allowing the import of savannah cats into Australia. The
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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.