Feral horses can inflict major ecological damage, as two experts explain.
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Semi-wild ponies are valuable for habitat restoration, yet policy changes may threaten their survival.
A mild summer led to breeding. And a dry winter could concentrate feral horses around fragile alpine waterways.
With feral horses gone, fragile alpine areas are no longer being trampled by hard hooves. But Kosciuszko’s landscapes will take decades to recover.
When it comes to storing carbon, alpine peatlands are powerhouses. But feral horse grazing and trampling tips the carbon balance in the other direction. We need to protect and restore our peatlands.
Feral horses trample endangered plant communities, destroy threatened species’ habitat and damage Aboriginal cultural heritage — and their numbers are increasing.
Incredibly, once the wells dried up some became nurseries for the germination and establishment of wetland trees.
Victoria’s plan has flaws, but it’s still likely to bring the feral horse problem under control, and will do a lot better than the very low benchmark set by NSW.
Compassionate conservationists believe no animal should be killed in the name of conservation. This idea is a death knell for Australia’s native species.
Small mammals in northern Australia have been rapidly vanishing for the last 30 years, and scientists weren’t sure why. Now, a major new study found feral livestock are largely to blame.
Expanding numbers of feral horses roaming the Australian Alps threaten the alp’s ecosystems, soils and unique species.
Wild ponies have lived in Britain for over 4,000 years, but they’re in danger of dying out.
Without an emergency cull of feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park, the land cannot recover from the bushfires – and threatened species are at grave risk of being annihilated.
Rapid action is needed to reduce feral horse numbers before they cause more damage to native species.
Horses roam free around the world. In the Alberta foothills, their management has become contentious.
Feral horses are a clear point of division between parties in this weekend’s election. Labor has pledged to repeal the Coalition government’s bill to preserve large numbers of brumbies.
Brumbies have a devoted following among high country locals, despite the fact that they were despised by colonial settler farmers. Their mythical status today owes a lot to cultural figures such as Banjo Paterson.
The ‘brumby bill’ which passed the NSW upper house late last night, is an embarrassing step backwards for the state.
Failing to cull feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park may end up promoting environmental destruction while actually increasing the horses’ suffering.
A new study of ancient Botai horses turns our knowledge about wild and domestic horses on its head.
Top contributors
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Conservation and Wildlife Management, University of Sydney
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor in Upland Agroecology, Aberystwyth University
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Adjunct Associate Lecturer, University of Newcastle
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Future Fellow in Ecology, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology, University of Alberta
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Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor in Wildlife Conservation Science, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Compassionate Conservation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Conservation Science, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Ecology, Charles Darwin University
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Lecturer in Ornithology, Ecology, Conservation and Parasitology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University