Feral Future

Preface, 2002
Preface
Introduction

PART I: SETTING THE STAGE

1 'Cursed is the Ground' - Pests in Ancient Times
2 First In - Invasions in Old Austria
3 'A Seasonable Gift' - Explorers Seeding the Wilds
4 Ecological Insurrection - Settling in Empty Land
5 'To Our Heart's Content' - The Mad Dreams of the Acclimatizers


PART II: CARELESS AMBITIONS

6 By Design - Planned Introductions
7 Ode to the Toad - The Cane Toad Conquest
8 'Peopling a Barren River' - A Fishy Business
9 Wet Pets - Aquarium Escapes
10 When Beauty is the Beast - Garden Plants Run Amok
11 Seeking Greener Pastures - CSIRO Welcomes Weeds


PART III: INVASION BY STEALTH

12 'Every Creeping Thing' - Species on the Move
13 Soil Travellers - Worms, Seeds, Spores
14 Ballast Blues - Something in the Water
15 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - Phytophthora's Curse
16 The Sick and Dying - Exotic Disease Strike
17 The Price of Free Trade - Opening the Door to Invasions


PART IV: AUSTRALIANS AS PESTS

18 A Source of Perverse Pride - Australianising the World
19 Colonial Revenge - British Wallabies and Budgerigars
20 Ecologically Entwined - Australians in New Zealand
21 Colouring the Landscape - Our Animals Abroad
22 Inheriting a Degraded World - Exporting Our Flora
23 It's Civil War - Natives can be Pests Too


PART V: A ROGUES' GALLERY

24 The Shuffled Pack - An Alien Who's Who
25 Seizing the Advantage - Exotic Roads to Success
26 A Bad Rap - Cats: Scoundrels or Scapegoats?
27 Where the Deer and the Antelope Roam - Hoofed Introductions
28 The Ultimate Pest - Our Destructive Ways


PART VI: WHERE ARE WE HEADED?

29 Expanding and Infilling - Pests Old and New Tighten Their Grip
30 Sleepers Wake - The Pests that Bide Their
31 Knocking at the Door - The Next Wave of Invaders
32 Whither the Wet Tropics? - A Hot Wet Case Study
33 The Homogocene - Visiting the Future
34 The New Architects - Redesigning the Land
35 Cryptogenic World - Native or Not?
36 It Happens Naturally - Invasion as Natural Process


PART VII: THINKING AND ACTING

37 Seeking Magic Bullets - Biocontrol Often Misses the Mark
38 The Quarantine Quandary - AQIS Wields a Small Swords
39 Are We Blind? - Barriers to Enlightenment
40 Wild Organisms - Understanding Plants
41 What to Do? - Embracing a New Ethos
42 Life Goes On


Appendices
I Australia's Worst Environmental Weeds
II Weeds of National Significance (WONS)
III Introduced Fauna in Australia
IV Australian Animals Abroad
V Some Recent Quarantine Highlights
VI Animals and Plants - A Checklist of Scientific Names

Glossary
Source Notes
Bibliography
Index