Pest management

A pest is any animal or plant that has an adverse economic, environmental or social impact on a particular place.

Pest plants and animals degrade our natural resources, damage precious vegetation, compromise biodiversity and interfere with human health and recreation.

The Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Act 2002 and the Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Regulation 2003 provide legislative measures for the management of pest plants and pest animals and stock routes throughout Queensland.

Pest survey - April to June

Council will start an approved Pest Survey Program under Section 242 of the Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Act 2002 (the Act).

This applies to all lands and waterways within the boundaries of the Fraser Coast Regional Council, including:

land owned or controlled by individuals, industry and government
rural and urban properties
places open to the public such as plant nurseries, landscape garden suppliers, seed merchants, stock fodder suppliers and quarry material suppliers

A high priority will be given to the following localities:

Beaver Rock
Craignish
Dundowran Beach
Dundowran
Fraser Island
Magnolia
Point Vernon
Pialba
Scarness
Talagaller Weir
Urraween

This program will start on 1 April 2013 and continue for three months concluding on 30 June 2013.

The object of the survey is to:

Monitor compliance with the requirements of the Act in relation to declared pests
Map the distribution of declared pests, environmental weeds and their population
Assist in the enhancement of community awareness in relation to declared pests, and
Council will issue notices to landowners where applicable

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