PestSmart Roadshow coming to a town near you
Invasive animals cost Australia more than a billion dollars annually. For your personal update on research and management developments to control invasive animals such as wild dogs, rabbits, foxes, feral pigs and carp, the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre for the first time is bringing the PestSmart Roadshow to a place near you in 2012.
The PestSmart Roadshow is carried out in conjunction with the Invasive Animals CRC partners Australian Wool Innovation, Meat and Livestock Australia and the Murray‐Darling Basin Authority. It will criss-cross the country with 17 events starting in Queanbeyan on 30 January and ending in Townsville on 1 May 2012.
The Roadshow will also showcase the PestSmart Toolkits, which is a national online collection of invasive species information. At all times before, between and after these Roadshow dates, the Invasive Animals CRC encourages graziers, farmers, public land managers and others with responsibility to control invasive animals to visit the PestSmart website www.feral.org.au/pestsmart/ and examine the PestSmart Toolkits on specific invasive animals to guide them in policy, legislation, control tools, best practice management and implementation.
Places are limited so you must register at http://pestsmart.eventbrite.com.au/ for each Roadshow and for catering purposes, which provides free morning and afternoon teas and lunch. The Roadshow, which starts at 8am through to 5pm at all venues, will showcase best-practice pest management incorporating currently used techniques and the latest innovations.
New products to be covered include:
- Wild dogs and foxes: Para aminopropiophenone (PAPP) baits, Blue Healer antidote, mechanical bait /toxin ejectors and Lethal Trap Devices
- Feral pigs: PIGOUT, PIGOUT Econobait, HOG GONE, HogHopper and a nitrite concentrate
- Rabbits: carbon monoxide fumigator and freeze dried Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease for carrots
- Foxes and cats: spray tunnel technology.
Information and product demonstrations will be brought to you directly by the Australian species experts.
| Roadshows will be held on: | ||
| Monday, 30 January | Queanbeyan, NSW | Queanbeyan Conference Centre |
| Wednesday, 1 February | Forbes,NSW | Forbes Services Memorial Club |
| Friday, 3 February | Albury, NSW | Albury Commercial Club |
| Tuesday, 7 February | Naracoorte, SA | Naracoorte Town Hall |
| Wednesday, 8 February | Horsham, Vic | Horsham Sports and Commercial Club |
| Friday, 10 February | Mildura, Vic | The Setts |
| Tuesday, 14 February | Port Augusta, SA | The Barracks |
| Thursday, 16 February | Port Lincoln, SA | Ravendale Community Sports Centre |
| Monday, 20 February | Carnarvon, WA | Carnarvon Civic Centre Woolshed |
| Wednesday, 22 February | Kojonup, WA | Memorial/Lesser Hall |
| Friday, 24 February | Esperance, WA | Esperance Civic Theatre |
| Tuesday, 28 February | Bourke, NSW | Diggers on the Darling (old Oxley RSL) |
| Wednesday, 14 March | Charleville, QLD | Charleville Memorial RSL Club |
| Friday, 16 March | Toowoomba, QLD | Highfields Cultural Centre |
| Tuesday, 20 March | Armidale, NSW | Armidale Ex Services Club |
| Tuesday, 17 April | Bairnsdale, Vic | Bairnsdale RSL |
| Tuesday, 1 May | Townsville. QLD | Townsville RSL |
For more information, please visit www.feral.org.au/pestsmart/roadshow or contact Suzy Balogh on 0418 417 943 or suzy.balogh@invasiveanimals.com
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