Shocking images emerge – horses killed by NSW drought littering Snowy River
6 October, 2018
Shocking images have emerged of dead horses littering the Snowy River in Kosciuszko National Park.
Shocking images have emerged of dead horses littering the Snowy River in Kosciuszko National Park.
Would a compassionate society let Australia’s feral rabbits roam free rather than trying to control their numbers through killing? Adjunct professor Peter Fleming takes a look at the ethics of killing for conservation.
The release of a wild horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park is an important chance to rein in exploding feral horse numbers in the alps. Have your say, make a submission by 19 August 2016.
When federal environment minister Greg Hunt made feral cats public enemy number one at the recent Threatened Species Summit his call to cull two million cats elicited an unexpected response from one quarter.
The NSW primary industries minister threatened to use biosecurity laws to prosecute animal activists. Animal activists just as much as farmers and other members of the community need to use good biosecurity practices.
1080 is currently essential for saving Australian native species, particularly threatened mammals, by offering an efficient way to control foxes (and cats to some extent).
If you care about wildlife, the Animal Justice Party (AJP) has some strong election policies.[1] But aspects of their policies relevant to invasive species are
The Invasive Species Council welcomes action to ensure that targets from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are incorporated into Australia’s national conservation agenda. However, we are deeply concerned about the draft Nature Strategy targets, as proposed in the discussion paper Updating Australia’s Strategy for Nature (February 2024).
In this submission, we outline the additional funding required for initiatives and policies over the next four years which would improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
15 urgent recommendations to improve fire ant eradication.
The updated Threat Abatement Plan for predation by feral cats presents a significant opportunity to curb the impacts of feral and roaming pet cats on wildlife, but only if it is adequately funded and fully implemented.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
This submission presents 101 recommendations to improve invasive species management in the state.
Our submission to the Inquiry into Pounds in NSW has been endorsed by the Australian Wildlife Society, Birdlife Australia, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and WIRES; our submission addresses policies, legislation and structures needed to support appropriate cat management to limit the impacts on wildlife.
Shocking images have emerged of dead horses littering the Snowy River in Kosciuszko National Park.
Would a compassionate society let Australia’s feral rabbits roam free rather than trying to control their numbers through killing? Adjunct professor Peter Fleming takes a look at the ethics of killing for conservation.
The release of a wild horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park is an important chance to rein in exploding feral horse numbers in the alps. Have your say, make a submission by 19 August 2016.
When federal environment minister Greg Hunt made feral cats public enemy number one at the recent Threatened Species Summit his call to cull two million cats elicited an unexpected response from one quarter.
The NSW primary industries minister threatened to use biosecurity laws to prosecute animal activists. Animal activists just as much as farmers and other members of the community need to use good biosecurity practices.
1080 is currently essential for saving Australian native species, particularly threatened mammals, by offering an efficient way to control foxes (and cats to some extent).
If you care about wildlife, the Animal Justice Party (AJP) has some strong election policies.[1] But aspects of their policies relevant to invasive species are
The Invasive Species Council welcomes action to ensure that targets from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are incorporated into Australia’s national conservation agenda. However, we are deeply concerned about the draft Nature Strategy targets, as proposed in the discussion paper Updating Australia’s Strategy for Nature (February 2024).
In this submission, we outline the additional funding required for initiatives and policies over the next four years which would improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
15 urgent recommendations to improve fire ant eradication.
The updated Threat Abatement Plan for predation by feral cats presents a significant opportunity to curb the impacts of feral and roaming pet cats on wildlife, but only if it is adequately funded and fully implemented.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
This submission presents 101 recommendations to improve invasive species management in the state.
Our submission to the Inquiry into Pounds in NSW has been endorsed by the Australian Wildlife Society, Birdlife Australia, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and WIRES; our submission addresses policies, legislation and structures needed to support appropriate cat management to limit the impacts on wildlife.
Shocking images have emerged of dead horses littering the Snowy River in Kosciuszko National Park.
Would a compassionate society let Australia’s feral rabbits roam free rather than trying to control their numbers through killing? Adjunct professor Peter Fleming takes a look at the ethics of killing for conservation.
The release of a wild horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park is an important chance to rein in exploding feral horse numbers in the alps. Have your say, make a submission by 19 August 2016.
When federal environment minister Greg Hunt made feral cats public enemy number one at the recent Threatened Species Summit his call to cull two million cats elicited an unexpected response from one quarter.
The NSW primary industries minister threatened to use biosecurity laws to prosecute animal activists. Animal activists just as much as farmers and other members of the community need to use good biosecurity practices.
1080 is currently essential for saving Australian native species, particularly threatened mammals, by offering an efficient way to control foxes (and cats to some extent).
If you care about wildlife, the Animal Justice Party (AJP) has some strong election policies.[1] But aspects of their policies relevant to invasive species are
The Invasive Species Council welcomes action to ensure that targets from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) are incorporated into Australia’s national conservation agenda. However, we are deeply concerned about the draft Nature Strategy targets, as proposed in the discussion paper Updating Australia’s Strategy for Nature (February 2024).
In this submission, we outline the additional funding required for initiatives and policies over the next four years which would improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The Invasive Species Council has 8 recommendations to be implemented in 2024 to mitigate the negative impacts of feral deer on the environment, economy, and public safety.
15 urgent recommendations to improve fire ant eradication.
The updated Threat Abatement Plan for predation by feral cats presents a significant opportunity to curb the impacts of feral and roaming pet cats on wildlife, but only if it is adequately funded and fully implemented.
The Invasive Species Council estimates that at least $2.19 million per annum is needed for the next four years to effectively manage deer populations, a cost that represents only 2% of the annual economic impact of feral deer.
This submission presents 101 recommendations to improve invasive species management in the state.
Our submission to the Inquiry into Pounds in NSW has been endorsed by the Australian Wildlife Society, Birdlife Australia, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and WIRES; our submission addresses policies, legislation and structures needed to support appropriate cat management to limit the impacts on wildlife.
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Dear Project Team,
[YOUR PERSONALISED MESSAGE WILL APPEAR HERE.]
I support the amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan to allow our incredible National Parks staff to use aerial shooting as one method to rapidly reduce feral horse numbers. I want to see feral horse numbers urgently reduced in order to save the national park and our native wildlife that live there.
The current approach is not solving the problem. Feral horse numbers have rapidly increased in Kosciuszko National Park to around 18,000, a 30% jump in just the past 2 years. With the population so high, thousands of feral horses need to be removed annually to reduce numbers and stop our National Park becoming a horse paddock. Aerial shooting, undertaken humanely and safely by professionals using standard protocols, is the only way this can happen.
The government’s own management plan for feral horses states that ‘if undertaken in accordance with best practice, aerial shooting can have the lowest negative animal welfare impacts of all lethal control methods’.
This humane and effective practice is already used across Australia to manage hundreds of thousands of feral animals like horses, deer, pigs, and goats.
Trapping and rehoming of feral horses has been used in Kosciuszko National Park for well over a decade but has consistently failed to reduce the population, has delayed meaningful action and is expensive. There are too many feral horses in the Alps and not enough demand for rehoming for it to be relied upon for the reduction of the population.
Fertility control as a management tool is only effective for a small, geographically isolated, and accessible population of feral horses where the management outcome sought is to maintain the population at its current size. It is not a viable option to reduce the large and growing feral horse population in the vast and rugged terrain of Kosciuszko National Park.
Feral horses are trashing and trampling our sensitive alpine ecosystems and streams, causing the decline and extinction of native animals. The federal government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee has stated that feral horses ‘may be the crucial factor that causes final extinction’ for 12 alpine species.
I recognise the sad reality that urgent and humane measures are necessary to urgently remove the horses or they will destroy the Snowies and the native wildlife that call the mountains home. I support a healthy national park where native species like the Corroboree Frog and Mountain Pygmy Possum can thrive.
Dear Project Team,
[YOUR PERSONALISED MESSAGE WILL APPEAR HERE.]
I support the amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan to allow our incredible National Parks staff to use aerial shooting as one method to rapidly reduce feral horse numbers. I want to see feral horse numbers urgently reduced in order to save the national park and our native wildlife that live there.
The current approach is not solving the problem. Feral horse numbers have rapidly increased in Kosciuszko National Park to around 18,000, a 30% jump in just the past 2 years. With the population so high, thousands of feral horses need to be removed annually to reduce numbers and stop our National Park becoming a horse paddock. Aerial shooting, undertaken humanely and safely by professionals using standard protocols, is the only way this can happen.
The government’s own management plan for feral horses states that ‘if undertaken in accordance with best practice, aerial shooting can have the lowest negative animal welfare impacts of all lethal control methods’.
This humane and effective practice is already used across Australia to manage hundreds of thousands of feral animals like horses, deer, pigs, and goats.
Trapping and rehoming of feral horses has been used in Kosciuszko National Park for well over a decade but has consistently failed to reduce the population, has delayed meaningful action and is expensive. There are too many feral horses in the Alps and not enough demand for rehoming for it to be relied upon for the reduction of the population.
Fertility control as a management tool is only effective for a small, geographically isolated, and accessible population of feral horses where the management outcome sought is to maintain the population at its current size. It is not a viable option to reduce the large and growing feral horse population in the vast and rugged terrain of Kosciuszko National Park.
Feral horses are trashing and trampling our sensitive alpine ecosystems and streams, causing the decline and extinction of native animals. The federal government’s Threatened Species Scientific Committee has stated that feral horses ‘may be the crucial factor that causes final extinction’ for 12 alpine species.
I recognise the sad reality that urgent and humane measures are necessary to urgently remove the horses or they will destroy the Snowies and the native wildlife that call the mountains home. I support a healthy national park where native species like the Corroboree Frog and Mountain Pygmy Possum can thrive.