Yellow crazy ants: world heritage area at risk through lack of funding

Program holding crazy ants at bay in world's oldest continuing rainforest suffers from lack of government funding commitment Funding to keep a voracious invasive ant from establishing super colonies in Australia's wet tropics world heritage area has less than six months of funding left, risking its future, Guardian Australia has been told.The wet tropics management authority (WTMA), which manages the vast world heritage area in north Queensland, is asking state and federal governments for a $6m a year package for the next seven years - enough, the authority says, for it to finish the job of eradicating the yellow crazy ant. Continue reading...