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.
This report applies an economic lens to the impacts growing numbers of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park are having on the NSW economy.
A full appreciation of the risks and costs of expanding fallow deer populations and distribution should drive a new approach to deer management in Tasmania.
Help save the Australian Alps by writing a submission to the federal Senate inquiry into feral horses management!
This fact sheet on the impact of pet cats on Australian wildlife shows that pet cats allowed to roam and hunt are a major threat to local wildlife.
The introduction of cats to Australia has been a disaster not just for our wildlife, but has impacts on human health as well.
An analysis of the 2019-20 NSW bushfires on Kosciuszko National Park suggests that most areas home to high numbers of feral horses were unburnt.
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.
Feral pigs are on the brink of causing an environmental catastrophe in Tasmania.
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.
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.
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.
This report applies an economic lens to the impacts growing numbers of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park are having on the NSW economy.
A full appreciation of the risks and costs of expanding fallow deer populations and distribution should drive a new approach to deer management in Tasmania.
Help save the Australian Alps by writing a submission to the federal Senate inquiry into feral horses management!
This fact sheet on the impact of pet cats on Australian wildlife shows that pet cats allowed to roam and hunt are a major threat to local wildlife.
The introduction of cats to Australia has been a disaster not just for our wildlife, but has impacts on human health as well.
An analysis of the 2019-20 NSW bushfires on Kosciuszko National Park suggests that most areas home to high numbers of feral horses were unburnt.
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.
Feral pigs are on the brink of causing an environmental catastrophe in Tasmania.
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.
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.
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.
This report applies an economic lens to the impacts growing numbers of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park are having on the NSW economy.
A full appreciation of the risks and costs of expanding fallow deer populations and distribution should drive a new approach to deer management in Tasmania.
Help save the Australian Alps by writing a submission to the federal Senate inquiry into feral horses management!
This fact sheet on the impact of pet cats on Australian wildlife shows that pet cats allowed to roam and hunt are a major threat to local wildlife.
The introduction of cats to Australia has been a disaster not just for our wildlife, but has impacts on human health as well.
An analysis of the 2019-20 NSW bushfires on Kosciuszko National Park suggests that most areas home to high numbers of feral horses were unburnt.
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.
Feral pigs are on the brink of causing an environmental catastrophe in Tasmania.
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.
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.
