This strategy encompasses invasive plants and animals, including exotic weeds and pest animals, invertebrate pests, invasive fish and some pathogens.
It recognises that managing the risks and impacts of invasive plants and animals happens with several potentially exacerbating factors. These include:
- climate change
- land use change
- land degradation
- biodiversity loss
- global trade
- increasing movement of people through travel and migration.
The management of invasive plants and animals is the shared responsibility of landowners, land managers, industry, the community, and all levels of government. Read more