Bait stations to control yellow crazy ants next to the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area

The project will protect and conserve the integrity of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, including numerous nationally 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 ants invasion into this biodiversity hotspot has the potential to have a devastating impact on this World Heritage Area.

本项目将通过管控毗邻居民区的黄疯蚁（Yellow Crazy Ant）种群，保护并维护湿热带世界遗产地（Wet Tropics World Heritage Area）的完整性，涵盖该区域内诸多列入国家保护名录的物种。湿热带热带雨林因其悠久的演化历史与大量特有动植物而享誉国际。该区域面积仅占澳大利亚大陆的0.26%，却拥有全澳最为丰富的动植物物种多样性，其中诸多物种为全球独有。多样的植被群落为众多珍稀濒危物种提供了栖息生境。黄疯蚁对这片生物多样性热点区域（biodiversity hotspot）的入侵，或将对该世界遗产地造成毁灭性影响。