We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.

While we can understand the rationale of consolidating biosecurity with food safety into one strategy and understand the relation and influence between them, it is our view that this removes the clear and targeted focus on biosecurity that the previous strategy communicated effectively.

We support efforts to strengthen the national biosecurity system, with particular focus on prevention and early action to prevent detrimental impacts on the Australian environment from invasive plants, animals and diseases.

Animal welfare is important – for both introduced and native species – because of an ethical imperative to try to avoid inflicting harm on sentient animals.

Feral deer populations are rapidly growing and spreading across Victoria damaging the natural environment and causing havoc for farmers and motorists.

The Invasive Species Council welcomes the development of a new Feral Deer Management Strategy to replace the Feral Deer Management Strategy 2013-18.

The Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must have a central mission that is a clear and urgent commitment to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.

A fact sheet and poster developed by the National Biosecurity Communication and Engagement Network on reporting marine pests in ports.

New report from Frontier Economics warns not controlling the impacts of feral deer in Victoria could cost the community $2.2 billion.

The Invasive Species Council's fact sheet one of the world’s worst invasive alien species, yellow crazy ants. May 2022.