Feral horses can inflict major ecological damage, as two experts explain.
- Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
A mild summer led to breeding. And a dry winter could concentrate feral horses around fragile alpine waterways.
Avec la campagne d’abattage des chevaux sauvages, les zones alpines fragiles ne sont plus piétinées par des sabots durs. Mais les paysages de Kosciuszko mettront des décennies à se rétablir.
With feral horses gone, fragile alpine areas are no longer being trampled by hard hooves. But Kosciuszko’s landscapes will take decades to recover.
Mistletoes are ecological keystones that boost habitat value for wildlife, so we added them to established plane trees in the inner city.
Feral horses trample endangered plant communities, destroy threatened species’ habitat and damage Aboriginal cultural heritage — and their numbers are increasing.
Wild sandalwood populations in Australia have been slowly collapsing for decades. New research found the Western Australian government has been warned repeatedly for a century.
Rapid action is needed to reduce feral horse numbers before they cause more damage to native species.
New research has shown how to measure conservation progress for Australia’s 238 endangered bird species
For decades, state and federal governments have shed environmental budgets and staff. Now it’s up to volunteers to fill the gap.
In a global first, hundreds of solar-powered microphones will be placed across Australia, listening out for invasive species, rare animals and the effects of climate change.
In many parts of the world, Christmas and mistletoe are inextricably intertwined. But in the natural world, mistletoe has long fascinated naturalists and scientists.
We’re familiar with the idea of releasing almost-extinct species into new areas. By doing the same with common animals, we can help stop their population numbers getting into the same perilous state.
It’s make or break time for Australia’s national parks. National parks on land and in the ocean are dying a death of a thousand cuts, in the form of bullets, hooks, hotels, logging concessions and grazing…
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