The Invasive Species Council publishes regular reports on a range of weed, pest animals and environmental diseases issues across Australia.
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
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.
Sustainable funding is critical for a strong biosecurity system and, therefore, protecting Australia’s economy, environment and communities.
The risks of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) arriving in Australia and causing mass mortality of native birds and mammals are likely to have increased.
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.
New report from Frontier Economics warns not controlling the impacts of feral deer in Victoria could cost the community $2.2 billion.
Australia was once a country where you could walk out at night and it was alive with wildlife scurrying and scrapping, digging and dashing. Australia’s nights are too quiet now.
This document outlines initiatives and policies for the next Australian Government to keep our native wildlife safe from new and established invasive species.
Initiatives and policies to improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
For the first time ever the native vegetation of Norfolk Island has been mapped, both as it exists now and before European arrival in 1750.
This strategy maps out a path for Tasmania to rapidly reduce increasing numbers of fallow deer and manage future numbers under a biosecurity-first approach.
This report applies an economic lens to the impacts growing numbers of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park are having on the NSW economy.
This report by Tim Low explores the health and environmental implications of using glyphosate in Australia on crops and to stop weeds invading native ecosystems.
An analysis of the 2019-20 NSW bushfires on Kosciuszko National Park suggests that most areas home to high numbers of feral horses were unburnt.
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
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.
Sustainable funding is critical for a strong biosecurity system and, therefore, protecting Australia’s economy, environment and communities.
The risks of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) arriving in Australia and causing mass mortality of native birds and mammals are likely to have increased.
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.
New report from Frontier Economics warns not controlling the impacts of feral deer in Victoria could cost the community $2.2 billion.
Australia was once a country where you could walk out at night and it was alive with wildlife scurrying and scrapping, digging and dashing. Australia’s nights are too quiet now.
This document outlines initiatives and policies for the next Australian Government to keep our native wildlife safe from new and established invasive species.
Initiatives and policies to improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
For the first time ever the native vegetation of Norfolk Island has been mapped, both as it exists now and before European arrival in 1750.
This strategy maps out a path for Tasmania to rapidly reduce increasing numbers of fallow deer and manage future numbers under a biosecurity-first approach.
This report applies an economic lens to the impacts growing numbers of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park are having on the NSW economy.
This report by Tim Low explores the health and environmental implications of using glyphosate in Australia on crops and to stop weeds invading native ecosystems.
An analysis of the 2019-20 NSW bushfires on Kosciuszko National Park suggests that most areas home to high numbers of feral horses were unburnt.
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
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.
Sustainable funding is critical for a strong biosecurity system and, therefore, protecting Australia’s economy, environment and communities.
The risks of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) arriving in Australia and causing mass mortality of native birds and mammals are likely to have increased.
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.
New report from Frontier Economics warns not controlling the impacts of feral deer in Victoria could cost the community $2.2 billion.
Australia was once a country where you could walk out at night and it was alive with wildlife scurrying and scrapping, digging and dashing. Australia’s nights are too quiet now.
This document outlines initiatives and policies for the next Australian Government to keep our native wildlife safe from new and established invasive species.
Initiatives and policies to improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
For the first time ever the native vegetation of Norfolk Island has been mapped, both as it exists now and before European arrival in 1750.
This strategy maps out a path for Tasmania to rapidly reduce increasing numbers of fallow deer and manage future numbers under a biosecurity-first approach.
This report applies an economic lens to the impacts growing numbers of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park are having on the NSW economy.
This report by Tim Low explores the health and environmental implications of using glyphosate in Australia on crops and to stop weeds invading native ecosystems.
An analysis of the 2019-20 NSW bushfires on Kosciuszko National Park suggests that most areas home to high numbers of feral horses were unburnt.
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. The Invasive Species Council supports voting ‘YES’ for a Voice to Parliament.
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.
