National Risk Assessment: Serious

This compilation brings together the Round 5 Serious Risk Assessments for Australia. It spans the Amazon tree boa (Corallus hortulanus), four weaver bird species (Euplectes afer, Euplectes orix, Euplectes axillaris, Euplectes franciscanus), and two whydah species (Vidua macroura, Vidua paradisaea).

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Round 5 - EIC Risk Assessments (.pdf, 1.71MB)

National Risk Assessment December 2024 to August 2025

This compilation brings together the Round 7 Vertebrate Risk Assessments. It covers a diverse range of species – from large mammals such as the Polar Bear, Giraffe, Hippopotamus, and African Buffalo, to reptiles including the Cantil, Dumeril’s Boa, and Ball Python, as well as the Tokay Gecko and a group of five Eos Lory species. – 2025

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Round 7 - EIC Risk Assessments (.pdf, 7.62MB)

Assessment of the biodiversity, economic and productivity gains from exclusion fencing, Western Australia: Final project report

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https://pestsmart.org.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/08/L006-Final-release-uploaded.pdf

Business case to advance the selection of new rabbit biocontrol agents

Peacock D (2015). Business case to advance the selection of new rabbit biocontrol agents. Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre, Canberra, Australia. – 2015

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IA CRC Rabbit Biocontrol Business Case Nov2015 (.pdf, 1.63MB)

The threat posed by pest animals to biodiversity in New South Wales

This report by Aaron J. Coutts-Smith, Paul S. Mahon, Mike Letnic and Paul O. Downey was part of an Invasive Animals CRC project – 2007

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NSWBiodiversity (.pdf, 1.83MB)