Hot topics
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 video 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.
[ Click here ] to see the footage
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.
2010 Research summary now available
The Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre’s 2010 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 5Mb].
Guardian dogs: A new tool against livestock predators
The Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre has released a best practice guide for managing guardian dogs. The Best Practice Manual for the use of Guardian Dogs is designed to equip land managers with the knowledge to be self-reliant in livestock and property protection against wild dogs, foxes and other predators. It provides landholders with another option — beyond fencing, baiting, shooting and trapping — to assist them to protect livestock from predation
[ Click Here ] to view the media release.
Ferals in the classroom
Feral Focus, an online education resource for high school teachers and students, is now online.
Pest Tales is now also available. It is an online education resource for primary school teachers and students.
[ Visit Pest Tales ]
Both sites provide curriculum based activities which address the complexities of dealing with pest animals in Australia, appropriate to the level of education the sites are aimed towards.
