As well as direct human impacts, Australia is seeing an increase in feral pest species that add to the pressure on our environment.
As well as direct human impacts, Australia is seeing an increase in feral pest species that add to the pressure on our environment.
In East Gippsland our freshwater ecosystems are threatened by clearfelling in most catchments, by industrial and agricultural pollution and excess nutrients, fire fighting chemicals broadcast over large areas, all of which end up in the Lakes system that is also threatened by deepening of the entrance at Lakes Entrance. This is changing a brackish-freshwater system …
A new study into the movement and behaviour of feral cats could have implications for the way bushfires are managed across the country. There is an “unholy alliance” between feral cats and wildfire, according to Australian Wildlife Conservancy chief executive Atticus Fleming. The large research project, undertaken by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, involved radio tracking …
Most likely, this is the first stage of the diabolical plan for world-domination that we have long suspected cats are plotting. First step: human mind control. I should start this article with a disclaimer: I am unashamedly and whole-heartedly a dog person. Being a dog person typically excludes you from also being a cat person. Imagine my delight then, when …
Last week… Jaala Pulford threw more of our money at destroying Victoria’s biodiversity…at the same time as Lisa Neville is drafting a strategy to protect it. $6.2M for yet more pointless and indiscriminate aerial baiting of wildlife (A Robley’s report 2011– showed it was ineffective against wild dogs). http://www.jaalapulford.com.au/media-releases/fox-bounty-extended-wild-dog-control-measures-doubled/ $5.3M to assist the hunting lobby. …
There are hopes a tracking program involving up to 100 domestic cats in the New South Wales central tablelands will help protect some of the region’s native species. The Central Tablelands Local Land Services project will kick off in March at Lithgow and will involve attaching GPS devices on cats for up to 11 days. …
Feral cats in Australia are descended from animals that arrived after European settlement, confirming their devastating impact on local wildlife, researchers say. Two separate studies analysed the genomes of feral cats from around Australia to determine whether Australian populations are related to Asian cats or came from European stock, and when they arrived. Although most …
The dingo is an unpaid pest species manager that works every day, yet they continue to be killed in large numbers. In turn this means that dingoes play an equally important role in protecting a long list of threatened and non-threatened Australian species, preyed upon in almost incomprehensible numbers by these feral interlopers. And yet …
For those keen fauna surveyors or even just budding naturalists, this link is excellent for trying to work out what critter you’ve seen, especially if caught on a movement sensing spy camera. It shows how to tell a bush rat from a swamp rat from a black rat, a dusky antechinus from an agile antechinus …
SHOOTERS will be choppered into the Snowy River National Park, in East Gippsland, to destroy feral cattle. Parks Victoria district manager Will McCutcheon said 10 cattle remained in the park. “Parks Victoria had recent success with helicopters used to locate the cattle and drop skilled shooters into remote, rugged sites, where access has been an …
This recent scientific report (Jan 2014) shows how Australia’s land mammals have extinctions suffered an extraordinary rate of extinction. We have lost over 10% of the 273 endemic terrestrial species over the last 200 years compared to only one native land mammal from continental North America going extinct since European settlement. “A further 21% of …
