Tasmanian Wildlife Regulations Review
27 September, 2021
Given their rapid growth, spread and impacts there is no justification for feral deer to remain Partly Protected Wildlife in Tasmania.
Given their rapid growth, spread and impacts there is no justification for feral deer to remain Partly Protected Wildlife in Tasmania.
Act urgently to protect the unique ecosystems and wildlife of Kosciuszko National Park by implementing a plan that reduces the feral horse population according to the best scientific and RSPCA advice.
Act urgently to protect the unique ecosystems and wildlife of Kosciuszko National Park by implementing a plan that reduces the feral horse population according to the best scientific and RSPCA advice.
Our submission to the Victorian Wildlife Act review focuses on the association between the Act and exotic animals, particularly feral deer.
This submission is a response to Parks Victoria’s 2021 draft feral horse action plan, Protection of the Alpine National Park.
UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre has been asked to assist in addressing the growing threat of feral deer in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Domestic cats were introduced to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. They are now one of the most damaging invasive species worldwide, and in Australia have been a major driver of mammal extinctions.
Feral pigs are on the brink of causing an environmental catastrophe in Tasmania.
Our joint submission to the Australian Government’s inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats includes strengthening regulations for cat-free islands.
A deadly bird flu virus is killing wildlife around the globe.. From Asia to Antarctica, the new deadly strain of bird flu has infected over 500 bird species and 60 mammal species, devastating wildlife populations and threatening local extinctions. As the only continent still free of the virus, time is running out to prepare Australia for its arrival.
A report into the ethical considerations of using 1080 to control feral animals has found the conservation benefits necessitate its use until an alternative is available.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Given their rapid growth, spread and impacts there is no justification for feral deer to remain Partly Protected Wildlife in Tasmania.
Act urgently to protect the unique ecosystems and wildlife of Kosciuszko National Park by implementing a plan that reduces the feral horse population according to the best scientific and RSPCA advice.
Act urgently to protect the unique ecosystems and wildlife of Kosciuszko National Park by implementing a plan that reduces the feral horse population according to the best scientific and RSPCA advice.
Our submission to the Victorian Wildlife Act review focuses on the association between the Act and exotic animals, particularly feral deer.
This submission is a response to Parks Victoria’s 2021 draft feral horse action plan, Protection of the Alpine National Park.
UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre has been asked to assist in addressing the growing threat of feral deer in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Domestic cats were introduced to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. They are now one of the most damaging invasive species worldwide, and in Australia have been a major driver of mammal extinctions.
Feral pigs are on the brink of causing an environmental catastrophe in Tasmania.
Our joint submission to the Australian Government’s inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats includes strengthening regulations for cat-free islands.
A deadly bird flu virus is killing wildlife around the globe.. From Asia to Antarctica, the new deadly strain of bird flu has infected over 500 bird species and 60 mammal species, devastating wildlife populations and threatening local extinctions. As the only continent still free of the virus, time is running out to prepare Australia for its arrival.
A report into the ethical considerations of using 1080 to control feral animals has found the conservation benefits necessitate its use until an alternative is available.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Given their rapid growth, spread and impacts there is no justification for feral deer to remain Partly Protected Wildlife in Tasmania.
Act urgently to protect the unique ecosystems and wildlife of Kosciuszko National Park by implementing a plan that reduces the feral horse population according to the best scientific and RSPCA advice.
Act urgently to protect the unique ecosystems and wildlife of Kosciuszko National Park by implementing a plan that reduces the feral horse population according to the best scientific and RSPCA advice.
Our submission to the Victorian Wildlife Act review focuses on the association between the Act and exotic animals, particularly feral deer.
This submission is a response to Parks Victoria’s 2021 draft feral horse action plan, Protection of the Alpine National Park.
UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre has been asked to assist in addressing the growing threat of feral deer in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Domestic cats were introduced to Australia with the First Fleet in 1788. They are now one of the most damaging invasive species worldwide, and in Australia have been a major driver of mammal extinctions.
Feral pigs are on the brink of causing an environmental catastrophe in Tasmania.
Our joint submission to the Australian Government’s inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats includes strengthening regulations for cat-free islands.
A deadly bird flu virus is killing wildlife around the globe.. From Asia to Antarctica, the new deadly strain of bird flu has infected over 500 bird species and 60 mammal species, devastating wildlife populations and threatening local extinctions. As the only continent still free of the virus, time is running out to prepare Australia for its arrival.
A report into the ethical considerations of using 1080 to control feral animals has found the conservation benefits necessitate its use until an alternative is available.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
Australia is in the midst of an extinction crisis. We have the worst mammalian extinction record in the world, with cats helping drive two thirds of these. We cannot continue to allow cats to decimate our native animals. We must act today, before it is too late.
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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.