Federal environment minister Sussan Ley announces $8 million for bushfire recovery in the Australian Alps, wants action on growing feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park.
Have your say on the development of a deer management plan for Tasmania. Initial submissions must be in by 12 December 2020.
A blanket ban on aerial horse culling has been a disaster for NSW national parks.
Meet Leo. He loves sleeping, and eating, and sitting on laps. He’s an indoor cat, and looks aside, a very, very happy cat.
New research has identified invasive trout as among the greatest threats to Australia’s most vulnerable native fish species.
Cats can be affectionate, playful, mischievous, lazy and regal, but they also have a dark side, one that has taken a huge toll on Australian wildlife.
Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
Our report into the ethical considerations of using 1080 to control feral animals finds conservation benefits necessitate its use until an alternative is available.
Will strong leadership by NSW environment minister Matt Kean be enough to see science-based feral horse management in Kosciuszko National Park become the new norm?
A review of Australia’s EPBC Act finds it is failing to address the main threats to nature.
Alpine sphagnum bogs burnt in the 2019-20 bushfires won’t recover without protection from feral animals.
The federal government has opened up a new inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats in Australia.
Australia’s native lizards and snakes at huge risk from a slew of weeds, foxes, cats, feral deer, wolf snakes and other pest species.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian Supreme Court’s decision to protect the Alpine National Park from growing horse impacts but is concerned the possibility of further legal action will 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.
Federal environment minister Sussan Ley announces $8 million for bushfire recovery in the Australian Alps, wants action on growing feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park.
Have your say on the development of a deer management plan for Tasmania. Initial submissions must be in by 12 December 2020.
A blanket ban on aerial horse culling has been a disaster for NSW national parks.
Meet Leo. He loves sleeping, and eating, and sitting on laps. He’s an indoor cat, and looks aside, a very, very happy cat.
New research has identified invasive trout as among the greatest threats to Australia’s most vulnerable native fish species.
Cats can be affectionate, playful, mischievous, lazy and regal, but they also have a dark side, one that has taken a huge toll on Australian wildlife.
Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
Our report into the ethical considerations of using 1080 to control feral animals finds conservation benefits necessitate its use until an alternative is available.
Will strong leadership by NSW environment minister Matt Kean be enough to see science-based feral horse management in Kosciuszko National Park become the new norm?
A review of Australia’s EPBC Act finds it is failing to address the main threats to nature.
Alpine sphagnum bogs burnt in the 2019-20 bushfires won’t recover without protection from feral animals.
The federal government has opened up a new inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats in Australia.
Australia’s native lizards and snakes at huge risk from a slew of weeds, foxes, cats, feral deer, wolf snakes and other pest species.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian Supreme Court’s decision to protect the Alpine National Park from growing horse impacts but is concerned the possibility of further legal action will 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.
Federal environment minister Sussan Ley announces $8 million for bushfire recovery in the Australian Alps, wants action on growing feral horse numbers in Kosciuszko National Park.
Have your say on the development of a deer management plan for Tasmania. Initial submissions must be in by 12 December 2020.
A blanket ban on aerial horse culling has been a disaster for NSW national parks.
Meet Leo. He loves sleeping, and eating, and sitting on laps. He’s an indoor cat, and looks aside, a very, very happy cat.
New research has identified invasive trout as among the greatest threats to Australia’s most vulnerable native fish species.
Cats can be affectionate, playful, mischievous, lazy and regal, but they also have a dark side, one that has taken a huge toll on Australian wildlife.
Do you know an individual or organisation who deserves recognition for their work protecting Australia from environmental weeds, diseases or pest animals?
Our report into the ethical considerations of using 1080 to control feral animals finds conservation benefits necessitate its use until an alternative is available.
Will strong leadership by NSW environment minister Matt Kean be enough to see science-based feral horse management in Kosciuszko National Park become the new norm?
A review of Australia’s EPBC Act finds it is failing to address the main threats to nature.
Alpine sphagnum bogs burnt in the 2019-20 bushfires won’t recover without protection from feral animals.
The federal government has opened up a new inquiry into the problem of feral and domestic cats in Australia.
Australia’s native lizards and snakes at huge risk from a slew of weeds, foxes, cats, feral deer, wolf snakes and other pest species.
The Invasive Species Council welcomes the Victorian Supreme Court’s decision to protect the Alpine National Park from growing horse impacts but is concerned the possibility of further legal action will 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.
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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.
