"Whenever I travel around Australia I'm always amazed by the hold that exotic species have obtained over this land.
 
Visiting Cape York a decade ago I expected to find unsullied wilderness; instead I found rainforests harbouring herds of feral cattle, grubbing pigs, flushes of Latin American carpet grass and slopes choked with hyptis. Cattle had kicked over a termite mound in which paradise kingfishers - one of Australia's most spectacular rainforest birds - were nesting.
 
It's little better anywhere else. Exotic pests are stealing into all of our national parks and wilderness zones."
Tim Low, a founder of the Invasive Species Council, writing in Feral Future
 
 
Even though the impacts are immense and ongoing, invasive species aren't being tackled seriously. An alarming number of invasive species are still coming in, staying, and spreading in Australia.
 
The Invasive Species Council is an independent, non-government organisation set up to campaign and advocate to stop further invasions, and to contain invading species already present.

The Weedy Truth About Biofuels. A new Report from the Invasive Species Council, by ISC Project Officer Tim Low, with Carol Booth.
 
This report exposes the weed risks of many proposed biofuels, and finds that most plants being promoted as biofuels in Australia are serious weeds that should not be grown.
 
The report examines the weedy risks posed by 18 proposed biofuel species being touted as climate change solutions, and recommends reforms to policy to reduce the weed risk of the emerging biofuels industry in Australia. Thus far the weed risk of biofuels has been ignored by policy makers in Australia.
 
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