May 2012
How can Australia stem the rising tide of environmental pests? By harnessing the energy and commitment of volunteers around the country under a new national organisation, Environment Health Australia.
This submission focuses on two invasive species issues that should be given a high priority in assessing proposals for new corridor connections: The potential for new corridors to facilitate the spread of some invasive species and the potential for invasive species to compromise the environmental functions for which corridors are proposed.
In economic terms – if biodiversity and the natural environmental were accorded appropriate value as national assets and essential infrastructure – Australia’s current approaches to
The NSW government proposes to open 39 new State Forests to hunting for 10 years. The NSW Game Council justifies recreational hunting as economic and
Environmental offsets are widely regarded as licences for destruction. We advocate measures to ensure that proposed offsets (to compensate for the residual impacts of approved
There are major deficiencies in current invasive species policies and programs that will inevitably result in further declines in biodiversity, which are likely to accelerate
ISC supports the proposed Regulation to reclassify the status of various exotic animals based on risk assessments by the Vertebrates Pest Committee. We recommend the
We have compiled evidence of threats to 18 species and ecological communities to support the listing of ‘Herbivory and environmental degradation caused by feral deer’
Weeds represent one of the biggest gaps in environmental laws. In a joint submission with other environment NGOs, ISC supports most of the reforms proposed
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.
May 2012
How can Australia stem the rising tide of environmental pests? By harnessing the energy and commitment of volunteers around the country under a new national organisation, Environment Health Australia.
This submission focuses on two invasive species issues that should be given a high priority in assessing proposals for new corridor connections: The potential for new corridors to facilitate the spread of some invasive species and the potential for invasive species to compromise the environmental functions for which corridors are proposed.
In economic terms – if biodiversity and the natural environmental were accorded appropriate value as national assets and essential infrastructure – Australia’s current approaches to
The NSW government proposes to open 39 new State Forests to hunting for 10 years. The NSW Game Council justifies recreational hunting as economic and
Environmental offsets are widely regarded as licences for destruction. We advocate measures to ensure that proposed offsets (to compensate for the residual impacts of approved
There are major deficiencies in current invasive species policies and programs that will inevitably result in further declines in biodiversity, which are likely to accelerate
ISC supports the proposed Regulation to reclassify the status of various exotic animals based on risk assessments by the Vertebrates Pest Committee. We recommend the
We have compiled evidence of threats to 18 species and ecological communities to support the listing of ‘Herbivory and environmental degradation caused by feral deer’
Weeds represent one of the biggest gaps in environmental laws. In a joint submission with other environment NGOs, ISC supports most of the reforms proposed
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.
May 2012
How can Australia stem the rising tide of environmental pests? By harnessing the energy and commitment of volunteers around the country under a new national organisation, Environment Health Australia.
This submission focuses on two invasive species issues that should be given a high priority in assessing proposals for new corridor connections: The potential for new corridors to facilitate the spread of some invasive species and the potential for invasive species to compromise the environmental functions for which corridors are proposed.
In economic terms – if biodiversity and the natural environmental were accorded appropriate value as national assets and essential infrastructure – Australia’s current approaches to
The NSW government proposes to open 39 new State Forests to hunting for 10 years. The NSW Game Council justifies recreational hunting as economic and
Environmental offsets are widely regarded as licences for destruction. We advocate measures to ensure that proposed offsets (to compensate for the residual impacts of approved
There are major deficiencies in current invasive species policies and programs that will inevitably result in further declines in biodiversity, which are likely to accelerate
ISC supports the proposed Regulation to reclassify the status of various exotic animals based on risk assessments by the Vertebrates Pest Committee. We recommend the
We have compiled evidence of threats to 18 species and ecological communities to support the listing of ‘Herbivory and environmental degradation caused by feral deer’
Weeds represent one of the biggest gaps in environmental laws. In a joint submission with other environment NGOs, ISC supports most of the reforms proposed
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.
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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.
