The Tasmanian Government must act now to stop feral deer numbers exploding or else the agricultural and environmental damage they cause will quickly become overwhelming.
Environmental damage is increasing from Victoria’s rapidly expanding feral deer population.
Three months out from a state election NSW environment minister Rob Stokes has ruled out using the only option left to prevent growing feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park – aerial shooting.
Solving the problem of feral cats in the Australian environment will require long-term, well-resourced steps. But with the right will, it can be done.
As feral horse numbers grow in the Australian Alps in the absence of an effective control program, so too is concern about the escalating damage.
The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 has revealed that feral cats, followed by inappropriate fire regimes and the red fox are the greatest threats to Australia’s threatened mammals.
In 2008 there was a strong public outcry against the proposal by a cat breeder to import savannah cats – a hybrid of domestic cats and African servals (Felis catus X Leptailurus serval).
In October the NSW Parliament passed legislation abolishing the NSW Game Council in response to the backlash against the proposal for recreational hunting in national
The Invasive Species Council today urged the NSW Government to amend the Bill abolishing Game Council NSW, introduced into Parliament today, to overcome the game hunting culture that is hampering feral animal control in that state.
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 Victorian Government announced on 11 July that it has made it easier to control deer on private land. This is great news for deer
The abolition of the NSW Game Council from July 2013 was a watershed in the way the NSW Government deals with recreational hunting. But is
The abolition of the NSW Game Council from July 2013 was a watershed in the way the NSW Government deals with recreational hunting. But is
The Invasive Species Council praised the decision by the NSW Government today to abolish the NSW Game Council and suspend hunting on public lands. It
The Tasmanian Government must act now to stop feral deer numbers exploding or else the agricultural and environmental damage they cause will quickly become overwhelming.
Environmental damage is increasing from Victoria’s rapidly expanding feral deer population.
Three months out from a state election NSW environment minister Rob Stokes has ruled out using the only option left to prevent growing feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park – aerial shooting.
Solving the problem of feral cats in the Australian environment will require long-term, well-resourced steps. But with the right will, it can be done.
As feral horse numbers grow in the Australian Alps in the absence of an effective control program, so too is concern about the escalating damage.
The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 has revealed that feral cats, followed by inappropriate fire regimes and the red fox are the greatest threats to Australia’s threatened mammals.
In 2008 there was a strong public outcry against the proposal by a cat breeder to import savannah cats – a hybrid of domestic cats and African servals (Felis catus X Leptailurus serval).
In October the NSW Parliament passed legislation abolishing the NSW Game Council in response to the backlash against the proposal for recreational hunting in national
The Invasive Species Council today urged the NSW Government to amend the Bill abolishing Game Council NSW, introduced into Parliament today, to overcome the game hunting culture that is hampering feral animal control in that state.
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 Victorian Government announced on 11 July that it has made it easier to control deer on private land. This is great news for deer
The abolition of the NSW Game Council from July 2013 was a watershed in the way the NSW Government deals with recreational hunting. But is
The abolition of the NSW Game Council from July 2013 was a watershed in the way the NSW Government deals with recreational hunting. But is
The Invasive Species Council praised the decision by the NSW Government today to abolish the NSW Game Council and suspend hunting on public lands. It
The Tasmanian Government must act now to stop feral deer numbers exploding or else the agricultural and environmental damage they cause will quickly become overwhelming.
Environmental damage is increasing from Victoria’s rapidly expanding feral deer population.
Three months out from a state election NSW environment minister Rob Stokes has ruled out using the only option left to prevent growing feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park – aerial shooting.
Solving the problem of feral cats in the Australian environment will require long-term, well-resourced steps. But with the right will, it can be done.
As feral horse numbers grow in the Australian Alps in the absence of an effective control program, so too is concern about the escalating damage.
The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 has revealed that feral cats, followed by inappropriate fire regimes and the red fox are the greatest threats to Australia’s threatened mammals.
In 2008 there was a strong public outcry against the proposal by a cat breeder to import savannah cats – a hybrid of domestic cats and African servals (Felis catus X Leptailurus serval).
In October the NSW Parliament passed legislation abolishing the NSW Game Council in response to the backlash against the proposal for recreational hunting in national
The Invasive Species Council today urged the NSW Government to amend the Bill abolishing Game Council NSW, introduced into Parliament today, to overcome the game hunting culture that is hampering feral animal control in that state.
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 Victorian Government announced on 11 July that it has made it easier to control deer on private land. This is great news for deer
The abolition of the NSW Game Council from July 2013 was a watershed in the way the NSW Government deals with recreational hunting. But is
The abolition of the NSW Game Council from July 2013 was a watershed in the way the NSW Government deals with recreational hunting. But is
The Invasive Species Council praised the decision by the NSW Government today to abolish the NSW Game Council and suspend hunting on public lands. It
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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.
