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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