Inspiring couple of days at the International Young Researchers Conference on Invasive Species (IYRCIS), hearing from other #ECR #InvasiveSpecies scientists and seeing the work they're doing on social aspects of #BiologicalInvasions 🐎 including a fab keynote from Franco Bostal on #FeralHorses

Wild horse sanctuary www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYh2WbJe/

Wildlife researchers believe British and American cavalry units abandoned these domestic animals during World War II, and their descendants now live as feral horses.
#Assam #Feralhorses

Death threats have been made to Rangers, and those who understand the need to remove #FeralHorses, whose increasing numbers impact the fragile alpine environment

“They value the life of these feral horses more than the lives of other...

'Dennis Kunoth, who runs Waite River cattle lease just south of Utopia, said feral horses were walking right up to community houses in search of water.

"I've seen [stallions] fighting at taps on the end of verandas — fighting over a drink"

#Feralhorses...

'The horse population within the Toolara and Tuan state forests, north of Gympie, is estimated to have increased by up to 50 per cent in the past four years to about 3,000 animals'

#FeralHorses
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#FeralHorses

'The TSSC (threatened species scientific committee) submission says horses are a known threat to 12 animals – three frogs, four fish, four reptiles and one mammal – six of which are critically endangered'

#EnvironmentalDegradation
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Hey peeps, any updates on this debacle? Please tell me it’s so hung up in red tape it won’t actually be implemented... ⁦@DonADriscoll⁩⁩ ⁦@RSPCA⁩ ⁦@OEHmedia⁩ #KeepItInTheNews #feralhorses http://www.theland.com.au/story/5453729/nsw-brumbies-bill-a-global-embarrassment/

Environment Minister ⁦@sussanley⁩ told the National Press Club this month that “seeing the damage that #FeralHorses have done to Kosciusko National Park now makes me extremely angry”....

Interesting way to ask your constituents for their thoughts @WendyLovellMP … seems you’ve already made up your mind. The science is settled, #FeralHorses need to be removed, and since there are only so many homes for rehoming, shooting is necessary.

Victorian agencies accused of failing to consult Yorta Yorta peoples over feeding of #FeralHorses in Barmah NP — what the ⁦⁦@GuardianAus⁩ fail to say is: (1) not brumbies, mostly released standard breds & (2) hay drops on a sacred burial site ...

Australia's feral horses said 'hold my hay' and multiplied the second culling stopped

https://worldbriefly.news/australias-feral-horses-said-hold-my-hay-and-multiplied-the-second-culling-stopp

#AustraliaWildlife #KosciuszkoNationalPark #FeralHorses #NSW #ConservationCrisis