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Welcome to the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre: Australia’s largest integrated invasive animal research program.

The Invasive Animals CRC creates new technologies and integrated strategies to reduce the impact of invasive animals on Australia’s economy, environment, and people. We concentrate on developing smarter tools to prevent and detect new invasions, advanced and tactical tools to strengthen integrated management strategies of carp and other pest fish, and new tools and integrated management strategies for major pests including foxes, wild dogs, feral pigs, rats and mice, cane toads, feral cats and rabbits.

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EXTENSION BID SUCCESS

Charge your glasses! We have just been advised that our extension bid has been SUCCESSFUL. To secure what is really a fourth term of funding is extraordinary, and a great testament to the importance and value of our work.

It is wonderful to have such a great outcome from all our hard work, and hearty congratulations are in order to all involved.

Carp plague Darling River

The Invasive Animals CRC would love to receive your mobile phone vision of any and all invasive animals. For example, a YouTube of the carp plague in the Darling River during August which the IA CRC issued a news release on which has garnered its own avalanche of media coverage. “Many metric tonnes of carp” all in one place is the comment by the camera operator, so do email contact@invasiveanimals.com with your invasive animals clip.

YouTube Footage

Application to add foxes to the live import list

The Invasive Animals CRC has made a formal submission to the federal government in response to an application to add silver foxes to the live import list.

[ Click here ] to read our submission [pdf 120 kb].

PestSmart now online

PestSmart is a toolkit of information on best practice pest animals management in Australia.

http://www.feral.org.au/pestsmart/

Fox bounties

Bounty systems offer what appears to be a simple solution to pest animal problems by providing financial rewards to reduce pest numbers. However, reviews of past bounty schemes from Australia and around the world show that they are an ineffective form of pest animal control and do not deliver long-term solutions to a widespread pest animal problem.

[ Click here ] for bounty system links.

FeralScan now live

The IA CRC’s FeralScan project is now underway with RabbitScan, CamelScan, FoxScan and MynaScan now live. Anybody can use FeralScan to create a species Management Map for their property or local area.

Any sighting data reported in FeralScan will help to provide a national overview of each species problem.

[ Click here ] to visit the FeralScan website.

2011 Research portfolio summary now available

The Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre’s 2011 Research Portfolio Summary is now available to download. The Research Portfolio Summary provides information on the full suite of research activities and includes completed, current and future projects.

[ Click here ] to download the document [pdf 3Mb].

Rabbits and wild dogs biggest feral pest cost to agriculture

A new report reveals the economic impact of rabbits, wild dogs, mice, foxes and feral pigs and pest birds is estimated at over $740 million per year.

[ Click here ] to download the full report.

Ferals in the classroom

Feral Focus and Pest Tales, online education resources for high school and primary school teachers, are now available.

The site provides curriculum based activities which address the complexities of dealing with pest animals in Australia.

[ More information ]

Breaking news

PestSmart Roadshow - Queanbeyan NSW

The Invasive Animals CRC is bringing the PestSmart Roadshow to a place near you. It will showcase best practice pest animal management...The first show will launch in Queanbeyan - 30 January 2012 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Click here to Register.

Mouse plagues

Mice are currently in plague proportions across the grain-growing regions of Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. For more information on mouse plagues, [ click here ]

IA CRC Annual Report

For information about the 2010-11 year [click here]