Emerging Weeds Weed Action Fund project
Strategic planning, community education and targeted on-ground works to tackle Tasmania’s emerging weed threats.
The Tasmanian Government’s Weeds Action Fund (WAF) supports coordinated action to reduce the impact of priority weeds on agriculture and the environment.
Under WAF Stage 3, Enviro-dynamics, through its delivery partners Landscape Recovery Foundation and Derwent Catchment Project, will lead a statewide program focused on emerging priority weeds, combining strategy development, education and awareness, surveying and targeted control to stop spread at the source and protect Tasmania’s biosecurity.
Why focus on emerging weeds?
A number of serious and potentially serious weeds have recently established or expanded in Tasmania. Early, coordinated action is the most cost-effective way to contain or eradicate outbreaks — especially around high-value assets, across tenures and along known spread pathways.
What this project will deliver
- Public resources & events: Field days/workshops across Tasmania, short educational videos, and downloadable brochures covering identification, impacts, hygiene and best-practice control for specific species.
- Strategic guidance: Species strategies/plans (statewide or local, as required) that set priorities, roles, rapid-response pathways and best-practice guidance.
- Survey & control: A pooled minimum of 80 person-days of surveys and targeted on-ground works across priority species and sites, delivered with landholders, councils and community groups; new records uploaded to the Natural Values Atlas (NVA).
How we’ll work
We’ll work in close partnership with landholders, councils, utilities, NRE Tasmania/Biosecurity Tasmania, Landcare/Wildcare and producer groups to align priorities and share effort. Our cross-tenure approach targets sites where control will curb regional spread and protect high-value assets. All actions will follow best-practice hygiene and treatment methods, with monitoring and clear, scheduled follow-up built in.
Targeted Emerging Weeds
Targeted Emerging Weeds
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Bathurst & Noogoora burr
Xanthium spp.
image credit: Bob Trounce NSW DPI
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Common heliotrope
Heliotropium europaeum
image credit: weeds of Melbourne
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Japanese knotweed
Reynoutria japonica
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Red inkweed
Phytolacca octandra
image credit: weeds of Melbourne
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Hairy sedge
Carex Hirta
image credit: ©anna_efimova
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Spurge laural
Daphne laureola
image credit: Andy Scott
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Spiny rush
Juncus acutus
image credit: Paul Marynissen NSW DPI
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Chilean mayten
Maytenus boaria
image credit: Scott Zona
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Stemless thistle
Onopordum acaulon
image credit: JJ Dellow
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Orange hawkweed
Pilosella aurantiacum
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Our target species
Each target species has a tailored package of deliverables: a mix of education resources, management plans, surveys and targeted treatment matched to species’ risk, distribution and feasibility. To learn more about what’s planned in your area or for a particular species, please contact the relevant lead.
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lead contacts
For enquiries related to Xanthium spp., Japanese knotweed, red inkweed, or common heliotrope, please contact Ella Weston at
ella.weston@enviro-dynamics.com.au
For enquiries related to hairy sedge, spurge laurel, spiny rush, Chilean mayten, and stemless thistle, please contact Steph Horwood at
stephanie.horwood@enviro-dynamics.com.au
For enquiries related to orange hawkweed, please contact Morgan McPherson at
