Environmental weeds are a major threat to our natural environment. They can change and destroy habitats and ecosystems, and outcompete indigenous plants for light, nutrients and water. This can leave our wildlife without food and habitat, and lead lead the decline in our native animals.
Council Rangers work within our reserves with the community and our local Environmental Friends Groups to actively manage our bushland to remove pest plants such as Sweet Pittosporum, Blackberry, Boneseed, Cotoneaster and Agapanthus from invading our bushland reserves.
Many pest plants are spread from garden escapees. Seeds are spread from our gardens by birds and animals or by people dumping garden cuttings into our bush and waterways.