The ACT senator wants the federal government to intervene in the NSW and Victorian governments’ management of feral horses in the Australian Alps.
We shouldn’t doubt the senator’s deep personal commitment genuinely outweighs her loyalty to a political party. She is being honest in the face of hostility.
Environmental groups have called to resume the practice as a result of damage that rising feral horse numbers are doing to wildlife and fragile alpine eco-systems.
The damage caused by brumbies in the Snowy Mountains has one obvious solution,but the NSW government hasn’t had the guts to do it.
There are calls to increase the wild horse culling efforts in Kosciuszko National Park amid an increase in the population.
The shooting of feral animals across all NSW national parks has been suspended following an alleged incident in February but farmers are up in arms about the ban.
Brumbies trample the delicate ecosystem of the Australian high country into worthless mud heaps. It’s like the Great Barrier Reef coral being devoured by an imported European fish – and everyone cheering for the fish.
Two-thirds of the Kosciuszko National Park will be kept free of the feral horses if a new management plan for controlling the animals’ numbers is implemented.
The state government is removing feral horses at barely a third of the rate needed to keep the Kosciuszko National Park population under control,the Invasive Species Council said.
Poem places the epic ride in an area where all stockmen were Indigenous,says Anthony Sharwood,the author of The Brumby Wars.
Ground and even aerial shooting of brumbies could be among the methods used to control burgeoning numbers of feral horses in the delicate Kosciuszko National Park,documents show.