Threatened Species Commissioner Gregory Andrews: Credit farmers for pest animal work

Alex Druce
Updated April 19 2017 - 7:07am, first published 5:02am
Threatened Species Commissioner Gregory Andrews said the nation’s farmers are often unfairly tarred by the city as ignorant on native wildlife and greedily complicit in the destruction of habitat, when in fact they are on the frontline helping control the biggest threat. Photo Michael Wysong Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre.
Threatened Species Commissioner Gregory Andrews said the nation’s farmers are often unfairly tarred by the city as ignorant on native wildlife and greedily complicit in the destruction of habitat, when in fact they are on the frontline helping control the biggest threat. Photo Michael Wysong Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre.

AUSTRALIA’S Threatened Species Commissioner says farmers don’t get enough credit for helping native animals and are in fact best placed to deal with the number one threat: invasive pests such as the feral cat and fox. 

Alex Druce

Alex Druce

Senior Journalist

Politics and rural issues journo in Sydney. Give me a yell at adruce@fairfaxmedia.com.au

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