Pest Management

Pest Animals

Wild Dogs - This manual contains practical advice on wild dog control strategies for land managers in the North Queensland Dry Tropics. This initiative is funded by the Queensland Government through Blueprint for the Bush, with support from NQ Dry Tropics, the Burdekin Shire Council, Burdekin Cane Productivity Services, Canegrowers, Townsville City Council, and Charters Towers Regional Council.

Feral Pigs - This manual contains practical advice on feral pig control strategies for land managers in the North Queensland Dry Tropics. This initiative is funded by the Queensland Government through Blueprint for the Bush, with support from NQ Dry Tropics, the Burdekin Shire Council, Burdekin Cane Productivity Services, Canegrowers, Townsville City Council, and Charters Towers Regional Council.

Mitchell J Fellowship - Feral pigs (Sus scrofa) are among the most economically and environmentally damaging introduced animal pests in Australia. Feral pigs cause serious damage to a wide range of agricultural industries and pose a significant threat to the ecological values of many regional ecosystems. They have been listed as a key threatening process under the EPBC Act (July 2001) to a wide range of rare and threatened animal and plant species and threatened habitats.

Pest Plants

The Pest plants listed below exist in the Charters Towers Region in scattered and relatively small to medium infestations or geographically isolated areas of the Region. For this reason, Charters Towers Regional Council places high priority for control of same within the Region.

• Prickly Acacia (Acacia nilotica) 
• Giant Rats Tail (Sporobulus pyramidalis and S. natalensis)
• Grader Grass (Themeda quadrivavis) 
• Siam Weed (Chromolaena spp.) 
• Rubbervine (Cryptostegia grandiflora) 
• Parthenium (Parthenium hysterophorus) 
• Chinee Apple (Ziziphus mauritiana) 
• Harrisia Cactus (Eriocereus spp.) 
• Parkinsonia (Parkinsonia aculeata) 
• Salvinia (Salvinia molesta) 
• Water Lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) 
• Captain Cook Tree (Thevetia peruviana) 
• Sisal Hemp (Agave sisalana) 
• Mother of Millions (Bryophyllum spp.) 
• Bellyache Bush (Jatropha gossypiifolia and J. curcas)