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.
There will be ‘disastrous consequences’ for Australia’s natural environment and economy if eradication is not successful
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.
$268 million federal fire ant funding announcement welcomed
Federal Senate to shine a spotlight on fire ant funding failures
Senate calls for urgent action on feral horses to save the Australian Alps
Invasive species like feral deer, cats, horses and pigs are an environmental disaster 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.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Australia has to be ready to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and a jobs-rich conservation and land management program could be just the ticket.
Our Work Invasive species include pest animals like feral cats and foxes, introduced marine pests, weeds, diseases, fungi and parasites, as well as insects from
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.
There will be ‘disastrous consequences’ for Australia’s natural environment and economy if eradication is not successful
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.
$268 million federal fire ant funding announcement welcomed
Federal Senate to shine a spotlight on fire ant funding failures
Senate calls for urgent action on feral horses to save the Australian Alps
Invasive species like feral deer, cats, horses and pigs are an environmental disaster 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.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Australia has to be ready to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and a jobs-rich conservation and land management program could be just the ticket.
Our Work Invasive species include pest animals like feral cats and foxes, introduced marine pests, weeds, diseases, fungi and parasites, as well as insects from
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.
There will be ‘disastrous consequences’ for Australia’s natural environment and economy if eradication is not successful
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.
$268 million federal fire ant funding announcement welcomed
Federal Senate to shine a spotlight on fire ant funding failures
Senate calls for urgent action on feral horses to save the Australian Alps
Invasive species like feral deer, cats, horses and pigs are an environmental disaster 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.
Australian Senate inquiry told feral deer are a destructive, invasive feral pest species that are multiplying out of control.
Australia has to be ready to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic and a jobs-rich conservation and land management program could be just the ticket.
Our Work Invasive species include pest animals like feral cats and foxes, introduced marine pests, weeds, diseases, fungi and parasites, as well as insects from
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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.
