A coalition of community members, experts and political representatives gathered at NSW Parliament House today to deliver a petition of more than 11,000 signatures calling for the repeal of the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018. Under Parliament rules the size of this petition immediately triggers a debate in the legislative assembly.
The latest feral horse population count for Kosciuszko National Park was discussed in NSW Budget Estimates today, with figures suggesting numbers have dropped significantly.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Minns government’s commitment to continue the removal of feral horses from Kosciuszko National Park and across NSW, including through aerial shooting.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian tribunal’s ruling against pro-brumby activists for the appalling racial vilification of Yorta Yorta woman, Aunty Monica Morgan.
The NSW Upper House has today released its report following an inquiry into the aerial shooting of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
For the first time in over 2 decades, significant numbers of feral horses have been removed from the Blue Mountains, following a landmark aerial control program undertaken by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).
The Invasive Species Council welcomes a major step forward to protect Barrington Tops National Park and the surrounding World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests, as crucial feral horse control efforts have finally been undertaken by the NSW National Parks Service.
The NSW Supreme Court has today comprehensively dismissed a legal challenge from a pro-feral horse group seeking to overturn the use of aerial shooting in Kosciuszko National Park
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
Today the NSW Supreme Court has rejected an application from pro-brumby group, Snowy Mountain Bush Users Group, to halt aerial culling in Kosciuszko National Park ahead of a hearing on July 2 and 3.
The ABC Ombudsman has released a rare, scathing report which finds the ABC breached the Corporation’s editorial standards for accuracy and impartiality when reporting on the issue of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
This is great news for our native animals and mountain streams. For the first time the number removed exceeds annual population growth, meaning we can expect a genuine reduction in the number of feral horses in the National Park.
While we support rehoming as one management option for feral horses, there must be strict protocols to ensure the high welfare risks involved are reduced.
New, highly detailed aerial imagery, which has been publicly released by mapping company Airborne Logic, has revealed the extensive damage by feral horses to the alpine rivers, grasslands and mossbeds of Kosciuszko National Park.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has flagged that the federal government may intervene to ensure a zero-tolerance approach to feral horses Kosciuszko National Park if the environmental impacts remain too high.
A coalition of community members, experts and political representatives gathered at NSW Parliament House today to deliver a petition of more than 11,000 signatures calling for the repeal of the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018. Under Parliament rules the size of this petition immediately triggers a debate in the legislative assembly.
The latest feral horse population count for Kosciuszko National Park was discussed in NSW Budget Estimates today, with figures suggesting numbers have dropped significantly.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Minns government’s commitment to continue the removal of feral horses from Kosciuszko National Park and across NSW, including through aerial shooting.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian tribunal’s ruling against pro-brumby activists for the appalling racial vilification of Yorta Yorta woman, Aunty Monica Morgan.
The NSW Upper House has today released its report following an inquiry into the aerial shooting of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
For the first time in over 2 decades, significant numbers of feral horses have been removed from the Blue Mountains, following a landmark aerial control program undertaken by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).
The Invasive Species Council welcomes a major step forward to protect Barrington Tops National Park and the surrounding World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests, as crucial feral horse control efforts have finally been undertaken by the NSW National Parks Service.
The NSW Supreme Court has today comprehensively dismissed a legal challenge from a pro-feral horse group seeking to overturn the use of aerial shooting in Kosciuszko National Park
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
Today the NSW Supreme Court has rejected an application from pro-brumby group, Snowy Mountain Bush Users Group, to halt aerial culling in Kosciuszko National Park ahead of a hearing on July 2 and 3.
The ABC Ombudsman has released a rare, scathing report which finds the ABC breached the Corporation’s editorial standards for accuracy and impartiality when reporting on the issue of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
This is great news for our native animals and mountain streams. For the first time the number removed exceeds annual population growth, meaning we can expect a genuine reduction in the number of feral horses in the National Park.
While we support rehoming as one management option for feral horses, there must be strict protocols to ensure the high welfare risks involved are reduced.
New, highly detailed aerial imagery, which has been publicly released by mapping company Airborne Logic, has revealed the extensive damage by feral horses to the alpine rivers, grasslands and mossbeds of Kosciuszko National Park.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has flagged that the federal government may intervene to ensure a zero-tolerance approach to feral horses Kosciuszko National Park if the environmental impacts remain too high.
A coalition of community members, experts and political representatives gathered at NSW Parliament House today to deliver a petition of more than 11,000 signatures calling for the repeal of the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018. Under Parliament rules the size of this petition immediately triggers a debate in the legislative assembly.
The latest feral horse population count for Kosciuszko National Park was discussed in NSW Budget Estimates today, with figures suggesting numbers have dropped significantly.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Minns government’s commitment to continue the removal of feral horses from Kosciuszko National Park and across NSW, including through aerial shooting.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian tribunal’s ruling against pro-brumby activists for the appalling racial vilification of Yorta Yorta woman, Aunty Monica Morgan.
The NSW Upper House has today released its report following an inquiry into the aerial shooting of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
For the first time in over 2 decades, significant numbers of feral horses have been removed from the Blue Mountains, following a landmark aerial control program undertaken by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).
The Invasive Species Council welcomes a major step forward to protect Barrington Tops National Park and the surrounding World Heritage Gondwana Rainforests, as crucial feral horse control efforts have finally been undertaken by the NSW National Parks Service.
The NSW Supreme Court has today comprehensively dismissed a legal challenge from a pro-feral horse group seeking to overturn the use of aerial shooting in Kosciuszko National Park
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
Today the NSW Supreme Court has rejected an application from pro-brumby group, Snowy Mountain Bush Users Group, to halt aerial culling in Kosciuszko National Park ahead of a hearing on July 2 and 3.
The ABC Ombudsman has released a rare, scathing report which finds the ABC breached the Corporation’s editorial standards for accuracy and impartiality when reporting on the issue of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
This is great news for our native animals and mountain streams. For the first time the number removed exceeds annual population growth, meaning we can expect a genuine reduction in the number of feral horses in the National Park.
While we support rehoming as one management option for feral horses, there must be strict protocols to ensure the high welfare risks involved are reduced.
New, highly detailed aerial imagery, which has been publicly released by mapping company Airborne Logic, has revealed the extensive damage by feral horses to the alpine rivers, grasslands and mossbeds of Kosciuszko National Park.
Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has flagged that the federal government may intervene to ensure a zero-tolerance approach to feral horses Kosciuszko National Park if the environmental impacts remain too high.
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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.
