Invasive species

The stuff about the Sydney Fox Rescue and other issues with invasive species is rather timely as I have been looking at the following website http://www.feralscan.org.au/default.aspx Some of you will already be familiar with Mynascan http://www.feralscan.org.au/mynascan/ but for those who aren’t the site is worth a look and it is a chance to at least help take some action against some feral species. Many of us are out in the field a fair bit so we are ideally suited to contribute to this citizen science project and to the control of invasive species. Mynascan also has a mobile phone app for those who want to send records that way. Carl mentioned the idea of a white list of permitted species and bonds required from those that imported new species. This was raised recently during stakeholder consultations with DEPI (in Vic) relating to the management of invasive birds. You can see a summary of what happened at http://invasives.org.au/blog/paying-lip-service-prevention/ Cheers, Euan Moore