Funding to keep the invasive ant species, Yellow Crazy Ants, from establishing super colonies in Queensland’s wet tropics world heritage area has less than six months of funding left.
The Wet Tropics Management Authority is asking the state and federal governments for a $6 million per year package for the next seven years.
The WTMA says this will be enough time to eradicate the yellow crazy ant from what is considered the world’s oldest continuing forest and a “living museum” to ancient plants and species.
Yellow crazy ants have been considered one of the worst invasive species, and have killed millions of Christmas Island red crabs.