Media coverage
Asian pests
ABC Radio National Breakfast, February 18, 2010
A monkey from Southeast Asia has been roaming the suburban streets of Darwin and a hive of Asian honey bees has been found inside the Cairns casino.
These incidents are raising serious concern, according to biologist and ecologist Tim Low. He is worried the Long-tailed Macaque will wipe out the Birds of Paradise and parrots of Papua New Guinea, as it continues its bio-invasion through Indonesia into West Irian. He warns that hopes for controlling the Asian honeybee are fast fading, with major implications for Australian agriculture.
Invasive species threaten US biodiversity
Guardian.co.uk, January 5, 2010
As 2010, the UN's International Year of Biodiversity, gets underway, a fight against some of the most damaging invasive species in US waterways is heating up.
But as the Invasive Species Council’s Tim Low warns, it will often be the combination of climate change and invasive pests operating together that will wipe species out.
Giant reed ‘a giant danger to environment’
The Australian, November 19, 2009
The Government is being warned not to play with fire by promoting the use of an invasive weed to produce biofuel.
Biologist and project officer with the Invasive Species Council, Tim Low, has warned of the potential dangers of cultivating the species Giant Reed (Arundo donax) in a speech to a biosecurity conference in Canberra.
Feral deer
Background Briefing, Radio National, September 27, 2009
Di Martin reports that feral deer numbers have exploded in many parts of Australia, and they're chewing through farms and bushland.
Farmers and environmentalists want them declared a pest and professionally culled. But in NSW, Victoria and Tasmania deer are protected for hunters wanting some sport.
The shooting conservationists
Stateline NSW, August 28, 2009
Nick Grim reports on a proposed bill before the NSW Parliament that could give recreational hunters access to national parks under the guise of feral animal control.
Invasive Species Council’s arguments deserve more than an “up yours” from the Game Council
Feral Thoughts, June 24, 2009
Head of Australia’s Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre Tony Peacock takes Game Council NSW to task for denigrating the Invasive Species Council over its work on recreational hunting as a form of feral animal control.
No shooters in parks
The Macleay Argus, 23 June 2009
John Jeayes analyses a push by the NSW Shooters’ Party to open up increasing amounts of NSW forest to recreational hunters to shoot native animals and as a form of feral animal control.
Climate change favours weeds – 2009
ABC Rural, 3 June 2009
It looks like a case of measles; lots of red spots on a map of Tasmania. It's the latest map of the perennial grass weed, serrated tussock.
Deer, are they game or pest?
Bush Telegraph, 12 June 2009
After Queensland declared deer a feral pest the Invasive Species Council called on other states such as NSW and Victoria to follow suit. In this interview ISC project officer Tim Low goes head-to-head with Game Council NSW’s Brian Boyle over the issue of using recreational shooters as effective feral animal control.
Indian mynah bird next to face Australian cull
guardian.co.uk, 15 May 2009
With local councils drawing up plans for community cullings of the Indian mynah bird Guardian journalist Toni O’Loughlin takes a look at some of Australia’s most detested feral animals.
Green groups call for war on weeds
The Age, 17 May 2009
The Invasive Species Council calls for a crackdown on weedy garden plants and the sale of their seeds in an effort to stop the devastation of native flora in national parks.
Fight for deer life as greens take on hunters
The Age, 10 May 2009
The growing numbers of sambar deer in Victoria are sparking calls for their eradication, with the Invasive Species Council calling for them to be declared a feral pest and eradicated from the bush. Carmel Egan reports.
Firestorm, flood and weeds
Bush Telegraph, 5 March 2009
Extreme fire and flooding poses a formidable challenge to controlling Australia's massive invasive weed problems, which cost the country about $4 billion a year.
And with the impacts of climate change predicted to bring an increase in extreme weather events Australia can expect more weed invasions
Biologist, author and Invasive Species Council project officer Tim Low joins weed scientist and former Weeds CRC chief Rachel McFadyen to discuss the issues.
Red Gum hunting deal under fire
Weekly Times, 12 January 2009
FERAL pigs and foxes are a serious threat to the new red gum national parks, but the Victorian Government's decision to allow in recreational hunters is unlikely to help, says Invasive Species Council policy officer Carol Booth.