The time has come to introduce our uninvited guests. We’re looking at the top 10 most destructive introduced animals (and plants) in Australia. But why are they so devastating? And how did they end up here? All this and more will be explored as we delve into the world of the ferals.
Special thanks to the following channels for kindly providing footage:
@nature_exposed
@wildnatureaustralia
@henryd1452
@outbackgatherer
Sources:
The ranking for this video is based on a study from the Threatened Species Recovery Hub: https://www.nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au/news-and-media/media-releases/australia-s-10-worst-invasive-species-study
‘The Ferals that ate Australia’ – Guy Hull
https://news.csu.edu.au/feature/are-feral-cattle-the-brumbies-of-the-northern-territory
https://caws.org.nz/PPQ131415/PPQ%2013-4%20pp179-179%20Briggs.pdf
https://rabbitfreeaustralia.org.au/environmental-harm/
https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/rabbits-introduced
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/invasive-species/feral-animals-australia/feral-cats
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/feral-goat.pdf
https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/biosecurity/pest-animals/established-pest-animal-species/red-fox
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Christmas Island off Western Australia has eradicated feral cats, and you are not allowed to own cats or dogs any longer. Once your existing pets died, you could not replace them. The island is a national park and very unique.
Maybe I'm imagining, but that music at the blackberry section sounds very much like AoE music…
I love the content of this channel, but having that music takes that appreciation to the next levels. Absolutely love your work, keep it up!
A brilliant video essay that should be compulsory in every school and for every politician.
This is the most informative video yet 🙌 Love your content
We are looking for nothing less than TFD
Poor mallee fowl copping an absolute flogging this video
i’ve got beef with you and your cattle puns
Acclimatisation leading instead to Mad Maxification is truly poetic.
Wish you had mentioned the 2 million plus feral camels and the 2 million plus feral donkeys plus the millions and millions of feral pigs.
Even "domesticated" rabbits are illegal in Queensland.
ookay this hit me like a tonne of bricks, didnt realise how bad it was, used to not like the calci virus idea but damn it is a good idea, totally on board now
dude i love you
Queenslander living in Tasmania, if I had to rank weeds I hate I’d put gorse ahead of a patch of lantana 😅 at least lantana can’t stab you in the eye
Great job
Thanks for making these videos.
Love the AOM music in the background!
Thanks for another great video. It's so important to get the word out on this important issue.
7:38 Taitset mentioned in a Backyard Naturalist video? Christmas came early for me!
Cats should NEVER be outside unsupervised.
Like how you use music from Age of Empires when you got to the plants (blackberry and lantana) 👍
Fuck starlings, they're invasive where I live too and they mess with our crops and buildings, I can't imagine what our biodiversity would look like without them
I love how many of the rodents in austalia just look clueless in their pictures. Like bros species is dying off and all he can care about is this grass.
I like you ended this on a positive note. It's easy to feel doom and gloom reading these statistics, so it's great to know progress has been made.
Australia has been screwed for decades by people letting their cats out. Don’t even get me started on bloody rabbits and foxes. Plants and animals across the country are under threat and the average person either has no idea or doesn’t give a shit. It’s actually depressing as fuck when you sit and think that in a couple generations a lot of the animals many of us have been lucky enough to see won’t even exist if it keeps going at the same rate.
really love the use of the Age of Mythology soundtrack
The black rat wasn’t looking for cheese, it was looking for more warp-stone “yes yes!!”
No but in all seriousness I love the TW music you used.
We have dingoes to thank for the extinction of tasmanian tiger and devil on mainland. An unofficial feral from a fee thousand years ago
You forgot the common myna.
9:01 I’m surprised you included a shot of the European starling and no common myna. 🤦🏼♂️
Your videos are elite
Feral cats are actually the creatures second most responsible for present-day extinctions globally.
we rabbits like munchies
about the feral cats, just say neuter or spay
I got a bit emotional towards the end there. Great work bro.. We will win in the end. Or we will die trying.The brushtail possums in my fence keep the cats at bay. Justice.
Rabbits are non existent across much of their former range nowadays
Great video 🎉
Very informative. Puns were a bit much though 😅
Great Video, 100% Australia is Priceless if only we Can save it from Our Pathetic lying Politicians they Should have been on your list, there ferals.
If Australia cared about native animals, they would make it legal to keep them as pets. There are lots of feral cats because cats are a common pet (yes they also continue to survive in the wild). If Aussies could keep wombats, possums, quolls, numbats as pets, you would have a lot more of those animals around.
It's stupid that Australians can have cats as pets but not Quolls. It's stupid that Americans can have sugar gliders as pets, but Australians can't. The ecological thinking is backwards.
Funny how they started getting rid of the feral cats in the outback and then they had a plague of rats and mice 🤷♀️. Humans do worse we might need deal with them first 😂
🌞Yr11 biology the food chain all equally in the ecosystem
Don’t support the meat industry and you’ll be helping endangered animals all over the world 🙂
It’s amazing how people can fuck up entire continents with a decade compared to the Jurassic extinction which happened over millions of years….hmmm