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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
Feral deer numbers have exploded across Tasmania, damaging native vegetation and ecologically fragile areas, costing farmers and forestry millions each year, and are becoming a serious hazard on the road.
Feral deer numbers have exploded across Tasmania, damaging native vegetation and ecologically fragile areas, costing farmers and forestry millions each year, and are becoming a serious hazard on the road.
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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
Day after day, plagues of hard-hoofed feral animals are tearing up nature across Australia, leaving a trail of destruction and trashing sacred sites of the oldest living culture on Earth.
Day after day, plagues of hard-hoofed feral animals are tearing up nature across Australia, leaving a trail of destruction and trashing sacred sites of the oldest living culture on Earth.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
Feral deer numbers have exploded across Tasmania, damaging native vegetation and ecologically fragile areas, costing farmers and forestry millions each year, and are becoming a serious hazard on the road.
Feral deer numbers have exploded across Tasmania, damaging native vegetation and ecologically fragile areas, costing farmers and forestry millions each year, and are becoming a serious hazard on the road.
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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
Day after day, plagues of hard-hoofed feral animals are tearing up nature across Australia, leaving a trail of destruction and trashing sacred sites of the oldest living culture on Earth.
Day after day, plagues of hard-hoofed feral animals are tearing up nature across Australia, leaving a trail of destruction and trashing sacred sites of the oldest living culture on Earth.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
Feral deer numbers have exploded across Tasmania, damaging native vegetation and ecologically fragile areas, costing farmers and forestry millions each year, and are becoming a serious hazard on the road.
Feral deer numbers have exploded across Tasmania, damaging native vegetation and ecologically fragile areas, costing farmers and forestry millions each year, and are becoming a serious hazard on the road.
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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. 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 animal. We must act today, before it is too late.
Day after day, plagues of hard-hoofed feral animals are tearing up nature across Australia, leaving a trail of destruction and trashing sacred sites of the oldest living culture on Earth.
Day after day, plagues of hard-hoofed feral animals are tearing up nature across Australia, leaving a trail of destruction and trashing sacred sites of the oldest living culture on Earth.
We have just 30 days to submit our support for humane and effective aerial control of feral horses to save Kosciuszko National Park.
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The Invasive Species Council was formed in 2002 to seek stronger laws, policies and programs to protect nature from harmful pests, weeds and diseases.
The Invasive Species Council acknowledges the Traditional Custodians throughout Australia and their connections to land and sea. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
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.
