Bait Stations to Control Yellow Crazy Ants next to Wet Tropics World Heritage Area

The objective of this project is to protect and conserve the integrity of the Wet Tropics World Heritage including numerous EPBC Act listed species by controlling Yellow Crazy Ants in adjoining residential areas. The Wet Tropics rainforests are recognised internationally for their ancient ancestry and many unique plants and animals. It has Australia’s greatest diversity of animals and plants within an area of just 0.26 per cent of the continent, many species are found nowhere else in the world. The diverse range of vegetation communities are habitat to numerous rare and threatened species. Yellow Crazy Ant invasion into this biodiversity hotspot has the potential to have a devastating impact on the outstanding universal value of the World Heritage Area.