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Invasive species

Invasive Species Invasive species have already caused at least 45 extinctions of unique Australian wildlife and they imperil 42% of nationally listed threatened species (to

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Fixing the system

Fixing the System Strengthening Australia’s threat abatement system To stop extinctions and restore ecological health, Australia needs to: protect and restore threatened species and ecological

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The Threats

Threats To Nature In Australia Nature besieged Since 1788, Australia’s plants and animals have been besieged by numerous threats – voracious new predators, large-scale destruction

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Adverse fire regimes

Adverse fire regimes The catastrophic 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires, which killed or displaced 3 billion animals, highlighted Australia’s long-term failures to prepare for and prevent

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Success Stories

Success stories Solutions for successful threat abatement in Australia Abating the big threats to nature is a daunting challenge. But Australians have proven it can

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Updates

Updates Threats to nature updates Optional introductory paragraph to the TTN updates section. Dig deeper Further reading link on another website. Further reading link on

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Threat Guides

Threat Guides Threats to Nature Field Guide – Feral Pigs Feral pigs (Sus scrofas) imperil at least 149 nationally listed threatened species. They prey on

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Averting extinctions

Averting Extinctions Our national threat abatement system is currently failing to avert Australia’s extinction crisis. This is not because the system is fundamentally flawed. The elements are

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Threats to nature home

AUSTRALIA IS A WORLD LEADER IN EXTINCTIONWe need an ambitious, systematic, well-funded, and nationally coordinated threat abatement system. AUSTRALIA IS A WORLD LEADER IN EXTINCTIONWe

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Feral Cat

Invasive species

Invasive Species Invasive species have already caused at least 45 extinctions of unique Australian wildlife and they imperil 42% of nationally listed threatened species (to

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Feral Cat

Fixing the system

Fixing the System Strengthening Australia’s threat abatement system To stop extinctions and restore ecological health, Australia needs to: protect and restore threatened species and ecological

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Feral Cat

The Threats

Threats To Nature In Australia Nature besieged Since 1788, Australia’s plants and animals have been besieged by numerous threats – voracious new predators, large-scale destruction

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Feral Cat

Adverse fire regimes

Adverse fire regimes The catastrophic 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires, which killed or displaced 3 billion animals, highlighted Australia’s long-term failures to prepare for and prevent

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Feral Cat

Success Stories

Success stories Solutions for successful threat abatement in Australia Abating the big threats to nature is a daunting challenge. But Australians have proven it can

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Feral Cat

Updates

Updates Threats to nature updates Optional introductory paragraph to the TTN updates section. Dig deeper Further reading link on another website. Further reading link on

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Feral Cat

Threat Guides

Threat Guides Threats to Nature Field Guide – Feral Pigs Feral pigs (Sus scrofas) imperil at least 149 nationally listed threatened species. They prey on

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Feral Cat

Averting extinctions

Averting Extinctions Our national threat abatement system is currently failing to avert Australia’s extinction crisis. This is not because the system is fundamentally flawed. The elements are

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Feral Cat

Threats to nature home

AUSTRALIA IS A WORLD LEADER IN EXTINCTIONWe need an ambitious, systematic, well-funded, and nationally coordinated threat abatement system. AUSTRALIA IS A WORLD LEADER IN EXTINCTIONWe

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Feral Cat

Invasive species

Invasive Species Invasive species have already caused at least 45 extinctions of unique Australian wildlife and they imperil 42% of nationally listed threatened species (to

Read More »
Feral Cat

Fixing the system

Fixing the System Strengthening Australia’s threat abatement system To stop extinctions and restore ecological health, Australia needs to: protect and restore threatened species and ecological

Read More »
Feral Cat

The Threats

Threats To Nature In Australia Nature besieged Since 1788, Australia’s plants and animals have been besieged by numerous threats – voracious new predators, large-scale destruction

Read More »
Feral Cat

Adverse fire regimes

Adverse fire regimes The catastrophic 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires, which killed or displaced 3 billion animals, highlighted Australia’s long-term failures to prepare for and prevent

Read More »
Feral Cat

Success Stories

Success stories Solutions for successful threat abatement in Australia Abating the big threats to nature is a daunting challenge. But Australians have proven it can

Read More »
Feral Cat

Updates

Updates Threats to nature updates Optional introductory paragraph to the TTN updates section. Dig deeper Further reading link on another website. Further reading link on

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Feral Cat

Threat Guides

Threat Guides Threats to Nature Field Guide – Feral Pigs Feral pigs (Sus scrofas) imperil at least 149 nationally listed threatened species. They prey on

Read More »
Feral Cat

Averting extinctions

Averting Extinctions Our national threat abatement system is currently failing to avert Australia’s extinction crisis. This is not because the system is fundamentally flawed. The elements are

Read More »
Feral Cat

Threats to nature home

AUSTRALIA IS A WORLD LEADER IN EXTINCTIONWe need an ambitious, systematic, well-funded, and nationally coordinated threat abatement system. AUSTRALIA IS A WORLD LEADER IN EXTINCTIONWe

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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.

Kind regards,
[Your name]
[Your email address]
[Your postcode]


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.

Kind regards,
[Your name]
[Your email address]
[Your postcode]