Invasive species in Australia
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Invasive species in Australia are a serious threat to the native biodiversity, and an ongoing cost to Australian agriculture. Numerous species arrived with European maritime exploration and colonisation of Australia and steadily since then.
Common invasive species in the Adelaide Hills: olive, artichoke thistle, fennel and bamboo
A European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Tasmania
Brumbies at Snowy Wilderness retreat in Jindabyne, New South Wales, 2003
Red imported fire ants
Sodium fluoroacetate
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Sodium fluoroacetate, also known as compound 1080, is an organofluorine chemical compound with the chemical formula FCH2CO2Na. It is the sodium salt of fluoroacetic acid. It contains sodium cations Na+ and fluoroacetate anions FCH2CO−2. This colourless salt has a taste similar to that of table salt and is used as a rodenticide.
Dichapetalum cymosum
Common brushtail possum, an invasive pest in New Zealand whose population is controlled with sodium fluoroacetate