Biosecurity in our region Pest animals
Managing pest animals is vital to help protect agricultural and horticultural production, and native biodiversity in our region.
Protecting agricultural production values is the key driver of our pest animal management programmes. In addition to possums, the management of introduced predators like cats and ferrets, and browsers like goats and deer, is needed to safeguard the biological diversity of our region. These species are wide-spread and their management presents the challenge of doing too little in too many places.
Under the Biosecurity Act, Horizons produces and implements a Regional Pest Management Plan. Our role under the Plan is to prevent the incursion of new animal pests and sufficiently manage those already established.
testing Possum Control Programme Possum Control Programme
Under the Biosecurity Act, Horizons produces and implements a Regional Pest Management Plan. Our role under the Plan is to prevent the incursion of new animal pests and sufficiently manage those already established
Animal species in the Regional Pest Management Plan
Under the RPMP Horizons undertakes different control programmes according to three key species categories:
Progressive containment
Mapped and unmapped.
Eradication
Short paragraph explainer.
Exclusion
Short paragraph explainer.
Exclusion species for our region are:
Wallaby