Feral goats are damaging the environment on Great Keppel (Woppa) Island and there are calls for their removal. The Department of Natural Resources says its priority since taking over the leases to the island's old resort has been to address public safety issues. The department says a goat management plan is expected to be finalised later this year.
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00:00White sandy beaches and crystal clear waters.
00:06Great Keppel Island is full of natural beauty.
00:09Most visitors wouldn't notice the environmental threat lurking beyond the beach.
00:15When I first got here there may have been about five to six hundred,
00:19but I'd have to guess there'd be probably about eight hundred to a thousand now.
00:23Feral goats are eating almost everything in sight, destroying flora on the island.
00:29Native grasses once covered these sand dunes.
00:33There's only one or two pieces of spinifex grass that would normally be along that beach.
00:37So that's a pretty big impact.
00:3967-year-old Carl Svensson has lived on the island his entire life.
00:44In the more modern times there's been no management plan for the goats.
00:49So that is obviously an issue.
00:51The Queensland Government has been responsible for managing the long-running issue since 2023
00:57after cancelling developer Tower Holdings' six leases on the old resort site for failing to pay its fees.
01:05They need to be removed completely.
01:07A hundred percent. Not culled down or anything like that.
01:10Otherwise we'll have the same problem in another ten years.
01:13Conservationists are calling for urgent action.
01:17The goats are going to grow exponentially so we don't have the time to wait.
01:21We need the government to hand over the money, hand over the authority
01:25and let the Wapa Borough people come forward and manage that land.
01:29The Department of Natural Resources and Mines says its priority since taking back the leases
01:34has been to address public safety issues.
01:36It's installed fencing around the old resort, CCTV, signage and cleared overgrown vegetation.
01:43A goat management plan is expected to be finalised later this year.
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