Local councils will be funded $10 million to target high-risk weeds across the state to protect the state’s primary production and public land.
According to the NSW Labor government, the NSW Government Weeds Action Program funds local councils ‘to detect and respond quickly to incursions of new high-risk weeds’.
Councils can apply for funding, says the government, to ‘undertake services such as surveillance, and rapid response to prevent, eradicate or contain new infestations of priority weeds’.
‘In addition, the program funds training for LCA biosecurity officers so they can effectively respond to biosecurity emergencies across NSW’, says the statement.
High-risk weeds targeted by the program are parthenium, rubber vine, tropical soda apple, alligator weed, and harrisia cactus.
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