Legal case won’t stop need to act on Victorian Alps feral horses
26 May, 2020
Those opposed to action on Victoria’s feral horse problem are back in court today, a last ditch effort to delay the inevitable.
Those opposed to action on Victoria’s feral horse problem are back in court today, a last ditch effort to delay the inevitable.
Parks Victoria will fully reinstate its feral horse control efforts to help limit escalating horse damage in the bushfire affected Australian Alps after success in a federal court case.
A post-bushfire plan to remove feral horses from three areas in Kosciuszko National Park is an important step towards recovery.
Join us on Thursday, August 22 when the NSW Parliament debates the impacts of feral horses on Kosciuszko National Park.
How did the ‘independent survey’ of feral horse numbers conducted by brumby advocates measure up as a survey method? Should it replace the Distance Sampling method currently used by the NSW government?
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
Cat-lover or not, none of us can escape the devastating impacts feral and roaming cats are having on Australia’s wildlife.
The Invasive Species Council strongly support the use of aerial shooting, when undertaken by highly trained professionals using standard protocols, as one of the available control methods for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
Register to join us for this virtual screening. Please note this event is for registered attendees only so registrations are essential.
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.
Initiatives and policies to improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The goal of any horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park must be to eliminate and restore feral horse damage through significant reduction in numbers.
Those opposed to action on Victoria’s feral horse problem are back in court today, a last ditch effort to delay the inevitable.
Parks Victoria will fully reinstate its feral horse control efforts to help limit escalating horse damage in the bushfire affected Australian Alps after success in a federal court case.
A post-bushfire plan to remove feral horses from three areas in Kosciuszko National Park is an important step towards recovery.
Join us on Thursday, August 22 when the NSW Parliament debates the impacts of feral horses on Kosciuszko National Park.
How did the ‘independent survey’ of feral horse numbers conducted by brumby advocates measure up as a survey method? Should it replace the Distance Sampling method currently used by the NSW government?
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
Cat-lover or not, none of us can escape the devastating impacts feral and roaming cats are having on Australia’s wildlife.
The Invasive Species Council strongly support the use of aerial shooting, when undertaken by highly trained professionals using standard protocols, as one of the available control methods for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
Register to join us for this virtual screening. Please note this event is for registered attendees only so registrations are essential.
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.
Initiatives and policies to improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The goal of any horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park must be to eliminate and restore feral horse damage through significant reduction in numbers.
Those opposed to action on Victoria’s feral horse problem are back in court today, a last ditch effort to delay the inevitable.
Parks Victoria will fully reinstate its feral horse control efforts to help limit escalating horse damage in the bushfire affected Australian Alps after success in a federal court case.
A post-bushfire plan to remove feral horses from three areas in Kosciuszko National Park is an important step towards recovery.
Join us on Thursday, August 22 when the NSW Parliament debates the impacts of feral horses on Kosciuszko National Park.
How did the ‘independent survey’ of feral horse numbers conducted by brumby advocates measure up as a survey method? Should it replace the Distance Sampling method currently used by the NSW government?
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
Remind your local member of parliament of the importance of keeping Mount Kosciuszko free from feral horses
THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FIRE ANTS How to help | Take action Thank you for taking action against invasive fire ants! If you’re looking for
Cat-lover or not, none of us can escape the devastating impacts feral and roaming cats are having on Australia’s wildlife.
The Invasive Species Council strongly support the use of aerial shooting, when undertaken by highly trained professionals using standard protocols, as one of the available control methods for feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park.
We face a crisis and current measures and resources in NSW are insufficient to halt and mitigate the impact of established invasive species and prevent the arrival and spread of new invasive species. In this document we detail priority actions the next NSW government can take that will strengthen the NSW biosecurity system and address priority environmental threats from invasive species.
Register to join us for this virtual screening. Please note this event is for registered attendees only so registrations are essential.
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.
Initiatives and policies to improve Australia’s capacity to keep nature safe from new and established invasive species.
The goal of any horse management plan for Kosciuszko National Park must be to eliminate and restore feral horse damage through significant reduction in numbers.
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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.