Pests

A WA pastoralist says he will not stand in the way of the bullets aimed at the donkeys on his remote property, but he will not kill the animals he says have had a positive environmental impact.

For the past 25 years the "king of weeds", Mark Facer, has been chasing and eradicating weeds. Now he has been called in to help graziers in far west NSW with the worst mesquite infestation he has seen.

The colourful flowers of gazanias might attract you to buy them at a nursery but it is worth considering whether you are getting an invasive weed causing havoc to our landscapes.

Neville Mattick says feral pigs are eating the lambs on his farm in the NSW Central West, with fewer than one in 100 surviving this season. 

The CSIRO is urging farmers to reduce opportunities for mice breeding this harvest season as the threat of a pest population boom looms.

The State Administrative Tribunal rejects an application to review a DPIRD order to cull more than 100 feral donkeys at a remote Kimberley station.

A nationwide program has traced how foxes spread from south-eastern Australia to as far away as the Pilbara in just 70 years, as part of efforts to revive native species populations decimated by the pest.

A hidden environmental crisis lurks beneath the crystal clear waters of Australia's east coast as long-spined sea urchins wreak havoc on the coast. Now scientists are trialling a new solution.

A Lockyer Valley man has accidentally found a toxic weed not seen in the region for more than half a century.

A resurgence of rabbit populations following recent rainfall is driving experts to urge for increased control measures. 

The first survey for feral deer in Tasmania in five years reveals an unanticipated increase of nearly 20,000 to the population.

Dozens of pigs were released illegally over several attempts to establish populations for hunting, with a local landscape board warning of the danger a feral population could cause.

PIRSA says there is a chance the deadly parasite remains in the state where it was detected for the first time earlier this month.

The Junee Shire Council says it is battling a rabbit problem, which forced a recent closure of the town's main cemetery for a week, including on Father's Day, for a baiting program.

Hundreds of cartons of nappy pants remain unaccounted for after one of the biggest threats to Australia's grain industry, khapra beetle larvae, was found in the imported products.

South Australia has ramped up its feral deer aerial culling program as drought-affected farmers battle the pest on their properties. 

New restrictions in place on moving materials into five central Queensland sites to reduce the spread of the invasive species. 

Beekeepers on Kangaroo Island are demanding that biosecurity measures be boosted to prevent a deadly parasite from wiping out the island's world-famous bee sanctuary. 

It might be hard to leave the one of the most idyllic places in Australia, but it is not a case of paradise lost for this retiring pest-hunting pooch.

It's barely the size of a sesame seed, but the shot hole borer has quickly devastated Western Australia's tree canopy. Experts are warning other states and territories to take action now to avoid a similar fate.