CORRECTION: In the voiceover at 8:18 the reporter wrongly says “With mares producing at least 2 foals a year…”. Mares on average produce one foal every two years. Thanks to the users who pointed this out in the comments. Source: pestsmart.org.au/pest-animal-species/horse/
The Gestation period of a horse is 11-12 months, a little hard to have TWO foals a year when they carry ONE a year... Guess the Australian year is twice as long as the rest of the world then and then some.
Your correction is wrong! Horses gestation is 11 months. When the mare foals, she comes into heat at 10 -14 days after foaling and can be bred again. Mares can and do foal every year. Not every two years.
@@aaronsanborn4291 if you told someone you just bought a mustang you know dam well they'd think car way before horse, almost nobody call em stangs any more
@mandolorian162 Sure, U city slickers don't know what to call a wild horse. Most people who don't live in the urban jungle know exactly what a Mustang is. There are few things as majestic as a Mustang at full gallop. The rythem of their hooves beating the ground and mane flying free in the wind.
I agree the culling is terrible, however out of all of the people complaining how many were willing to lend a hand to help manage the horses I wonder. Culling is sometimes the best option when people release foreign animals into the wilds.
Culling is not terrible in my eyes. I own 2 cats, 2 horses and I see the need to do this. Culling is necessary and unfortunately we aren't culling the animal that needs to be culled the most.
I know of some people that were real stock men that offers their services to remove them by trapping they were shut down the crazy people want to keep them
Sorry for replying so late but I have been the target of the abuse and hate for living on the same street as a vet who has rotated 3 brumbies for Jindabyne sanctuary who give him injured animals. Currently has a chestnut and two others at the popular business next door.
There just isn't demand for breaking them in, that woman rehomed 400 feral horses in 20 years - 20 per year - out of an estimated population of 300,000. It would be insulting to call that a drop in the ocean.
watching this video shows me an American horseman how little so many folks know about horses. no mare will birth 2 foals a year unless freak twins and they seldom live
@@tinotreloar8251 Gestation is 11 months and 10 days on average and would be less in feral horses because they are less likely to settle if they are in a negative energy balance which is probably very common in a mare nursing a foal in the wild.
Fort Polk, Louisiana here in the U.S. has a sizeable wild horse herd...they have an adoption program or at least they did 20 years ago...you catch it pay $50 and the horse was yours.
📺Watch the full series here: ua-cam.com/play/PL7HSPnTFVAuE8-9WN1eFHS8QvdWcyJaSU.html Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 ua-cam.com/video/hBJN8BOK4oI/v-deo.html Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 ua-cam.com/video/VaB9J8JHVxI/v-deo.html Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 ua-cam.com/video/Aa7Ehl9UcHY/v-deo.html Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 ua-cam.com/video/qLMehMZWq80/v-deo.html Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 ua-cam.com/video/ZJGvqmKsApk/v-deo.html Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 ua-cam.com/video/778Da7NCF6s/v-deo.html Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 ua-cam.com/video/t22hkF0A6h8/v-deo.html Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 ua-cam.com/video/PTCeqO0g-sM/v-deo.html Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 ua-cam.com/video/lvxJVvFiUGY/v-deo.html
I agree, reading some of these “animal lover’s” comment’s I realized that there was way more selfish people that only cares about a select few animals that looks cute than I could have ever imagined.
Two foals a year? Who gave you this information? Did you guys do any research before making this video? So much of this is wrong/misleading information.
Reading some of these “animal lover’s” comment’s I realized that there is way more selfish people that only cares about a select few animals that looks cute than I could have ever imagined. Like come on do you really think you could find a home to three hundred thousand horses, that’s just plain impossible.
@@rayyanibrahim451 Except the occasional foal. But Australia too had some other amazing megabeasts like Quinkana and Thylacoleo. But even bigger Diprotodons! Such amazing creatures and so many more gone. Aboriginal bushfires that made the already accelerated effects of climate change back then even worse. I don't blame them though, they were just trying to survive and conservation wasn't a thing back then.
Australia used to have Marsupial Lions to deal with animals this size, I suppose importing Leopards and Jaguars could help but thats a whole 'nother can of worms.
@@fludblud Not gonna happen trust me, well there are still those black leopards roaming Australia when they were released from circuses, but it's still largely unknown whether they're there or not but evidence suggest that they may be, or who knows maybe Thylacoleo is just doing its job unknown to the likes of us...
I think you miss the point of conservation. Australia has unique flora and fauna not found anywhere else in the world. I love horses too, they just don't belong in Australian wilderness.
Well if it wasn't for humans they wouldn't be having these problems down there. To quote Mr. Smith "Human Beings Are A Disease, A Cancer Of This Planet. You're A Plague, And We Are The Cure."
@@FoysalAhmed-rp1ku That's why Australia got the most population with skin cancer, I guess even nature has its way of getting back at the excessive culling other than the fire
Interesting that there is such controversy over these horses which are only there because of man they are not natural to Australia and are from domesticated stock. I would think that these horses could be marketed as good tough cattle horses. I agree that if it’s a choice between native species survival or the horses it should be the native species as they have no other way to survive but these horses could survive anywhere man wants them as it was man who put them there.
@MARCUSAURELIUS horses do kill native wildlife and they also destroy their habitat, they cave in the burrows native creatures live in, they trample ecologically important flora species and they cause erosion
That's the problem people watch movies and think it's real life. I was abused by some old lady whom believes horses roam in a group of 1000+ it's people like her that are the primary supporters of Brumby pests.
@@443tify Yes 100% correct, all carbon emissions and environmental destruction are multiplied by the magnitude of people. But still it's difficult to advocate the slaughtering of people.
Wow The fact that they believe a horse has two foals per year is outrageous. A horse is pregnant fir almost a year and then the foal stays with it's mom for another year and a half. A mare will only have one foal every two to three years.
@@TheEquineJournalist not in my experience . In a setting as in the wild or at a farm where stallions and nares are together ... It is rare that a baby is not produced every year .
My experience is that in a natural setting , the mares come into he as 5 a month or so after giving birth . With stallions available , they usually take the first heat cycle . So a year and a month or so , another birth .
I went up to Nunniong in Victoria last Thursday. I seen close to 100 Brumbies compared to 2 wallabies, 0 deer. In fact I reckon I seen more Brumbies than birds! I would estimate in the area alone there must be close to 5 thousand horses due to the shit everywhere. All night horses making noises and so many open grazed fields resembling pastures. Not many native animals there, just horses. So many of them!!! Go to this destination -37.185583, 147.998718 if you don't see at least 100 horses in such a small area then feel free to abuse me. On the Satellite imagery all the damage and pasture like sections are damage caused by wild horses. The headwaters are contaminated and completely trashed by horse.
@@443tify Difference here is at least we have a limit. If a species goes to the endangered list we have certain protections for it and we have insurance populations in zoos on standby. Horses and other invasives do not have these limits.
@@rayyanibrahim451 humans drive other animals to extinction. We introduce animals to an environment where they dont belong. Humans are the worst invasive species. Invasive species wouldnt exist if it wasnt for us. Most people need to be gone. Stop acting like our existence benefits nature
@@443tify your argument is so flawed it’s funny. Yes we get humans created the problem. But who’s going to fix it if we disappear? 1. We obviously aren’t going to disappear and 2. Even if we did the problem is still there lol
I’m going to be unpopular. Having been an instructor/coach for decades. Unfortunately a lot of riders want horses to complete fr pony club to show jumping and dressage. Hope brumby’s can fit the bill.
So lemme get this strait, you guys are killing''invasive" feral cats, donkeys, horses, foxes and rabbits, as well as native kangeroos and dingos. My friend had a sign that said 'fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity. How many animals are being killed to save animals. Individual animals matter too
@Basfordiron i get what you are saying to add to that .. there not causing problems to native species , actually there helping because they kill foxes and cats ...
@@vishakhduttsingh1752 maybe if we lern to respect eachothers bobs and vegana everything will be gud..... you may speak the truth but so does oceso so yah... everyone has their own truths in a way
If we really have to cull them and theirs no way that they can stay can we at least replicate an Australian mustang makeover but with our brumbies if we really have to give them a chance to live with us
That would be amazing. I’m a Brit but follow the mustang makeover youtubers with absolute delight. It’s a wonderful thing and it seems to be a model that works, even if it doesn’t solve the whole problem. I’d love to see Australia implementing something similar!
This mirrors the issue with “mustangs” here in the USA. With the same issues; too many horses, no easy answers and no acknowledgment that this can’t continue forever along with the emotional response of those not effected.
horses do way more damage here in Australia . Americas and is use to hard hooved animals and has evolved with them . australia had no hard hooved animals so the who ecology is immensely disrupted to the extinction of many many plants and animals due to the disturbance hard hooves do to the Australian land
@@oscammed7712 who's fault is plastic pollution in waterways? humans, they didn't manage their garbage correctly, why would you clean up plastic and destroy it sustainably !!!!! plastic deserves to spend thousands of years floating around poisoning the ecosystem. it seems your magical fairy land solution to feral animals causing intense ecological damage is to just throw our hands up and go "well they are alive too" and run away, leaving our wildlife to die, feral animals are a lot like plastic pollution except the key difference is that ferals can breed so the situation will just get worse and worse if we ignore it, you are only as good as a feral pest, make an effort to change and help the environment heal instead of foolishly protecting the exact things that tarnish our ecosystem
You fortunate because lot of animals was being seen around tour country. Here Philippines its rare to seen domestic horses much more in wild horses. Horses in my country is a primary source of of transportation in mountaine area and its important.
It's ABC so of course that's true, they were talking about the brumbies in NSW. It's only when they roam across the border to Victoria they can only have one foal. Everything they tell us is true. Even if they tell us the dingo's were really the backpacker serial killers it would be true.
Insanity. Protecting an introduced species that can be found anywhere in the world when their presence threatens the existence of multiple species that can't be found anywhere else on the planet.
Unlike horses in Australia where they have been introduced by humans. Horses in North america evolved there and migrates into eurasia later so they are beneficial for the North American ecosystems
@@Sebastian-sd1om incorrect by most scientists theories, all feral horses in the United States are introduced from Europe and have a devastating impact on local native animal and plant life in areas they aren't controlled.
@@Sebastian-sd1om - Problem with that thinking is that N America, until relatively recently, had multiple species of really big cats, including American lions and smilodons, along with giant short-faced bears and dire wolves. The remaining carnivores in N America, cougars and grey wolves, aren't very good at controlling horse populations. I suppose we could release African Lions as a reasonable analog of American lions, but I quite doubt the ranchers would be too keen on that idea. :)
@@rustyshacklford245 - Horses did in fact evolve in N America, and then spread to Eurasia and Africa, during periods when Beringia was above water. There were native horses in N America as recently as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. But N America also had some predators back then to control horse populations that are now extinct -- along with the native horses.
@@tballstaedt7807 no we didn’t, humans are native to Africa. If we hadn’t left Africa and stayed living a relatively simple life we wouldn’t be destroying the planet right now. You call other people delusional when your also delusional. Also technically we are an invasive species in fact a MEGA invasive species because of the way we are destroying almost every ecosystem on planet earth
You can't say horses are feral. Along with dogs, horses have served humans loyally and selflessly from time immemorial. We should focus on rejuvenating land rather than culling.
Why is shooting them from the air such an issue? The horses are actively destroying the delicate environment but the people in charge of protecting that environment are too delicate to deal with it.
In the news now is the necessary culling of feral camels in some regions of Australia. A way of creating some economic benefit for cattle farmers who are burdened by feral camels is to organize camel safaris for Australian, European and American hunters. By setting up organized hunts the cattle farmer would benefit in two ways; one would be the fees paid for room and board by those hunters, and the other would be less damage done to the cattle farmer's property because of reduced numbers of camels. Why don't you put an ad in a few European and American hunters magazines like Wild & Hund, Field & Stream, La Chasse, or Shooting Times.
Why cull feral camels? They sell for a fortune overseas because they culled native camels into extinction - even the rubbish ones make their transport back.
@@psychedashell Thank you for your reply. I did not know that a profitable business case could be made by catching camels and hauling them to some harbour. And then shipping them to some Arab country. Can you please elaborate? What country would buy them?
@@m.b.5839 the nation of Saudi Arabia buys them from Australia quite regularly for three main reasons. the first being that what few native camel populations still remain in Saudi Arabia either are very inbred or a very close to it so they import them from Australia for genetic diversity. second is that the feral camels of australia have evolved several adaptations for survival in the outback that Saudi camels don't have that make them incredibly good for Camel racing, a very popular sport in Saudi. The third being that Australian Camels seem to have a higher level of disease resistance that those found in the middle east.
Every single corner on earth has been settled by someone at some stage. Humans have impacted the entire eco system on this planet, not just australia. What a stupid comment
@@ginaoh1607 we have issues with the mustang herds here in the States ...although the biggest issue we have is wild hogs and in my area it's coyotes....they breed like rabbits.
People just dont get it. Nobody is disputing the horses beauty and intrinsic value. But they do not belong in the National park. Its that simple. They are a feral species. Ive seen first hand the damage they do in Kosciusko. Its insane the level of damage they do to the wetlands. We also trap, kill and export thousands of feral goats to the US. I dont hear anyone kicking up a stink about that.
Steve Smith.. I totally agree. The numbers officially released by NPWS state that no more than 2000 horses were counted in KNP. Deer have been counted and estimated at over 1 million and the wild pigs which do most of the damage at over 10,000. There is no way the brumbies which have also been decimated by the fires in the Snowy Mountains would reach this number. Of course numbers need to be managed and licenced hunters should be allowed in when the gates are closed to shoot and hunt deer and pigs. The panel which is still in operation with progressive discussions continuing as what is a sustainable number, and the passive trapping of the brumbies in the winter months must be allowed to continue. We are brumby advocated, yes.. We DO care for the environment and of course all hard hoofed animals will cause some damage. But there are those who are blinkered to all the damage being caused by our wild horses. People within these groups along with the original poster of this thread should stop and be aware that NOT ALL THE NEWS THEY HEAR IS CORRECT.. THE KNP HAS NOT BURNED TO A CRISP.. and to state there are 25,000 horses in the park is totally laughable.. To do this, every single mare would have to have multiple live births.. and only to fillies.. and then those fillies after their first year must also give birth to live multiples! Cheers mate! Let's hope common sense prevails.
I grew up being read Banjo Paterson & Henry Lawson & admit wild horses are an amazing sight , but no hooved animal is native . They have to be controlled somehow , cattle grazing was banned in the high country for or fear causing the same damage the horses do , by that logic they need to go & cattle atleast are of benefit ie ... Meat , jobs & would contribute to the bottom line of the nation . Deer cause alot of damge aswell .
Watching theses videos makes me wonder how many native animals are left... If it's an invasive species it should be 100% open to removal. For meat, or to be domesticated for riding. Not super popular I know. But you guys have rabbits, camels, cane toads and all sorts of things.
People's attitude to feral animals and the damage they cause to the environment is very strange. Feral animals shouldn't have any rights to live and as long as they are destroyed humanely, there shouldn't be any argument
Who are you to say what should or shouldn't live? They brought them here, they used them in their wars, planting and harvesting crops, pulling wagons, you name it the horse was used for it. Now they have vehicles and the horse isn't needed any more. They turned them loose not caring if they lived or died. But hey!! They thrived! Now it's a problem, they shoot them!!
There been culling samba deer in the high country that have much less impact than horses and creat a lot more money to the economy by hunters control not wipe out and when have Mares been having 2 foals a year reportage story correctly
This is incorrect on several levels. Deer so far more damage to the Australian eco system than brumbies do and they outnumber brumbies 100:1. Their multi pronged hooves are the issue.
I think they are talking about the economic viability of shooting those horses. You have to travel to their habitats, track them down and shoot them. Dispose the bodies if it is required. That's a lot of cost adding up. You can pay people to do that like when they did with the Emu but if you don't pay enough they won't take the job.
@@jackschiller8252 Not if they are too far away from the farm. Nobody gonna pay for the fuel cost. If you just shoot the ones getting near your farm, you are not fixing the problem to the root. And if you don't dispose the bodies, it will transmit disease to your cattle. The best way to get an invasive animal population under control is to make it profitable to kill them. But nobody is interested in horses meat. If you don't make full use of the whole body, you will have to pay for the clean up of whatever you left behind. .
I’m sorry but you are ignorant. You have an emotional attachment to horses but you are not being rational. I’m sure you don’t love cane toads because they’re ugly but but you love horses because they are majestic. But both cause negative impacts on the environment. Just because you don’t see it or understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Step aside. You’re not helping.
@@antman2826 I totally agree with Taleb. Can I ask you without causing any confrontation ... have you been up to the mountains and had a look around at the so called damage the brumbies have caused. I regularly camp up there and hikee for miles looking for damage and so far have found and photographed only six creek crossings ( with the widest path being 5 foot wide were they cross). I'm not a greenie but someone who wants our parks managed properly.
Introduced species with no predators of course they will destroy everything. Catch as many as you can and kill the rest. The 300000 feral horses in Australia will lead to the death of millions of smaller animals. It's time we started eating and feeding horse meat to our dogs .
@@drbosommd then I suggest you look into the Mexican horse slaughterhouses…horses from the US are shipped from auctions , in the most in humane way ( no food or water, stick hot trucks sometimes for days, and shipped even if they are sick or injured …and many are sick or injured) seeing the horrors of both the transport and the slaughterhouses would break the heart of anyone that has a heart.
I don't get it. Dogs, cats, camels and rabbits get shot everyday. No reaction. My only problem with shooting them is that the corpse is just left there and goes to waste.
It’s the animal extremists that all,talk about the “ stress” the animals experience…saw this in the camel video as well….well living in the wild is stress! And animals can cope wirh stress if it does t last for too long… Animlas do t experience stress like people do…….and claiming they do is a great disservice to the animals… Horses have been rounded up like this for thousands of years and made good working horses at the end of it……
Australia is sooo huge, why dont YOU give those majestic living creatures horses, camels, deers, goats, rabbits a dedicated sanctuary, a wide land for them to roam freely and live undisturbed. Let them live and survive. Greetings from the Philippines .
Sway public opinion to have the horses slaughtered. I remember years ago, when the government did this , people were really pissed off. Talk to the indigenous people who will tell you how much cattle damaged all their water holes/springs, they used for drinking before their lands was used for cattle. Civilisation, urban sprawl has done more damage.
Stop complaining about other species when it is humans who are the problem! Bigg parts of Australia is burning down and many species are getting wiped out all this because of people!
ole nausene lol please explain how it’s the people. And you honestly think because there’s a “ bigger problem “ it means ignore the other ones? Get a life
@@Marcusb338 humans create climate change climate change create huge fires and droughts huge fires and droughts wipe out animals do you understand? Humans also kill most animals and destroying their habitats. humans are the most destructive invasive species in Australia so yeah fix that problem first. And if people stopped killing all the predators they would naturally control the populations of goats, pigs, cattle, rabbits, buffalo, deer, sheep, horses and the list goes on.
Someone has probably already suggested it but why cant we do up a long term management plan (That doesn't have to include culling/violent means). Like you still have your quick fixes so to speak, but when you cull a starving populous and the food source doubles, the population will inflate again...etc etc. Is gathering groups of horse living in densely populated areas (Or a zone where the populous has the potential to rise in numbers quickly) and gelding colts, or chemically castrating both males and females not a viable thing to plan out? Obviously effectiveness won't be seen right off the bat but doing it in small groups or 'a band' of horses at a time (Whilst marking it down obviously) will have to pay off somewhat in regards to future numbers and the controversial complications of possibly culling more and more animals too. Sterilization will never be a 'quick fix' but if viable would make for a good management strat. When over looking some of these bands of horses, any horses suitable for re-homing can be picked up here too. Probably the euthanizing of any really unhealthy animals as well, goes without saying really. (Just me putting this out there, really interested if someone had similar thoughts... or maybe why this couldn't possibly help?) ;)
CORRECTION: In the voiceover at 8:18 the reporter wrongly says “With mares producing at least 2 foals a year…”. Mares on average produce one foal every two years. Thanks to the users who pointed this out in the comments. Source: pestsmart.org.au/pest-animal-species/horse/
It just shows how little research and thought the abc puts into its stories. Dumb researchers dumber......
The Gestation period of a horse is 11-12 months, a little hard to have TWO foals a year when they carry ONE a year... Guess the Australian year is twice as long as the rest of the world then and then some.
Glad you cleared that up , I think it sounds so lame when the facts are so wrong
How can a mare produce at least two goals a year, when the gestation period for horses is 11 months?
Your correction is wrong! Horses gestation is 11 months. When the mare foals, she comes into heat at 10 -14 days after foaling and can be bred again. Mares can and do foal every year. Not every two years.
Aussies always find funny cool names for regular stuff.
We call them Mustangs in the States
Just append "-y"/"-ie" on the end of everything. :)
@@aaronsanborn4291 if you told someone you just bought a mustang you know dam well they'd think car way before horse, almost nobody call em stangs any more
I love how literally every word is game for an abbreviation in Australia.
@mandolorian162 Sure, U city slickers don't know what to call a wild horse. Most people who don't live in the urban jungle know exactly what a Mustang is. There are few things as majestic as a Mustang at full gallop. The rythem of their hooves beating the ground and mane flying free in the wind.
Waiting for aussie feral cow, feral chicken, feral sheep, feral beautiful blonde ladies.
Actually quite a few feral blondes 🤣
Feral guinea pigs, feral quail, feral mice, feral cats, feral pigeons, feral sparrows, feral Mynahs, feral Starlings, feral rabbits, feral dogs, feral goats, feral deer, feral cattle, feral horses, feral pigs, feral wasps, feral ants, feral Toads, feral fish, feral plants... we have all of them.
@boy Afrika he's not wrong about any of them.
@@peterwarner553 they're called crack whores its a pity we don't have an open season for them buggers
@@santyclause8034 Feral Humans ...
I agree the culling is terrible, however out of all of the people complaining how many were willing to lend a hand to help manage the horses I wonder. Culling is sometimes the best option when people release foreign animals into the wilds.
Culling is not terrible in my eyes. I own 2 cats, 2 horses and I see the need to do this.
Culling is necessary and unfortunately we aren't culling the animal that needs to be culled the most.
I know of some people that were real stock men that offers their services to remove them by trapping they were shut down the crazy people want to keep them
People brought the horses into Australia, people are responsible for the results. No matter what your heart says you need to address the situation.
Sorry for replying so late but I have been the target of the abuse and hate for living on the same street as a vet who has rotated 3 brumbies for Jindabyne sanctuary who give him injured animals. Currently has a chestnut and two others at the popular business next door.
Moral of the story is "Shoot the horses from the water."
Shoot them from space with a giant space laser.
Hahahahaha innovative solutions
give them guns to shoot themselves :D
Send to Indonesia please, the better choice ... 😥😥
@@julhandirh how much would it cost?
There just isn't demand for breaking them in, that woman rehomed 400 feral horses in 20 years - 20 per year - out of an estimated population of 300,000. It would be insulting to call that a drop in the ocean.
watching this video shows me an American horseman how little so many folks know about horses. no mare will birth 2 foals a year unless freak twins and they seldom live
Maybe in captivity... But creatures reproduction is different in freedom
@@tinotreloar8251 Nope. Definitely not. Some breeders might get the mares to birth a foal each year but normally it would be every two years
They pinned a comment saying it was a mistake.
They corrected that above but yeah, you’d think they’d do a little more research.
@@tinotreloar8251 Gestation is 11 months and 10 days on average and would be less in feral horses because they are less likely to settle if they are in a negative energy balance which is probably very common in a mare nursing a foal in the wild.
Fort Polk, Louisiana here in the U.S. has a sizeable wild horse herd...they have an adoption program or at least they did 20 years ago...you catch it pay $50 and the horse was yours.
Pretty much impossible for a civilian to catch these horses where they are
Some of those blacks would send a rush of air through old Zephyr Bay's grave. Those were fine horses.
Yea but in the USA there are animals that eat horses and native Americans had horses they were here for like 500
📺Watch the full series here: ua-cam.com/play/PL7HSPnTFVAuE8-9WN1eFHS8QvdWcyJaSU.html
Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 ua-cam.com/video/hBJN8BOK4oI/v-deo.html
Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 ua-cam.com/video/VaB9J8JHVxI/v-deo.html
Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 ua-cam.com/video/Aa7Ehl9UcHY/v-deo.html
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 ua-cam.com/video/qLMehMZWq80/v-deo.html
Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 ua-cam.com/video/ZJGvqmKsApk/v-deo.html
Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 ua-cam.com/video/778Da7NCF6s/v-deo.html
Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 ua-cam.com/video/t22hkF0A6h8/v-deo.html
Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 ua-cam.com/video/PTCeqO0g-sM/v-deo.html
Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 ua-cam.com/video/lvxJVvFiUGY/v-deo.html
This really isn’t a topic that should be this heavily debated their destroying habitat and a cull is more than appropriate
I agree, reading some of these “animal lover’s” comment’s I realized that there was way more selfish people that only cares about a select few animals that looks cute than I could have ever imagined.
In Australia every animal's causing one or the other problem except human 😄😄😄
Beautiful saying
no, humans are the biggest problem
America isn’t exempt from that problem either
Actually only humans caused all the problems
@@mushroom3321 big problem their too...
Two foals a year? Who gave you this information? Did you guys do any research before making this video? So much of this is wrong/misleading information.
11 mths gestation for horse.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We've made corrections as a pinned comment, in the video description and within the video itself.
@@abcaustralia Fake news
Reading some of these “animal lover’s” comment’s I realized that there is way more selfish people that only cares about a select few animals that looks cute than I could have ever imagined. Like come on do you really think you could find a home to three hundred thousand horses, that’s just plain impossible.
Hahahaha "I dunno what cracks like but i cant be as good as this"... thats awesome lol.
Australia so lucky to have many animals like this that other country nedeed but sad to hear that this animals give them problems
Not the problem they reckon.
It's rabbits that are the problem
@@Jimmy-1919pigs mostly
People are the problem.not the horses
Seeing all these feral animals videos we can figure out the lack of natural predators for these animals.
The only predator Australia has is the dingo . Sadly they kill him too!
@@rayyanibrahim451 Except the occasional foal. But Australia too had some other amazing megabeasts like Quinkana and Thylacoleo. But even bigger Diprotodons! Such amazing creatures and so many more gone. Aboriginal bushfires that made the already accelerated effects of climate change back then even worse. I don't blame them though, they were just trying to survive and conservation wasn't a thing back then.
Australia used to have Marsupial Lions to deal with animals this size, I suppose importing Leopards and Jaguars could help but thats a whole 'nother can of worms.
@@fludblud Not gonna happen trust me, well there are still those black leopards roaming Australia when they were released from circuses, but it's still largely unknown whether they're there or not but evidence suggest that they may be, or who knows maybe Thylacoleo is just doing its job unknown to the likes of us...
Exactly
I don't understand what the animals are damaging while most of Australia is desert like
In Australia everything is a-thread, horses, goats, camels, donkeys, dogs and rabbits. So what else is next!!! Humans or earth itself
Sure why not
I think you miss the point of conservation.
Australia has unique flora and fauna not found anywhere else in the world. I love horses too, they just don't belong in Australian wilderness.
Well if it wasn't for humans they wouldn't be having these problems down there. To quote Mr. Smith "Human Beings Are A Disease, A Cancer Of This Planet. You're A Plague, And We Are The Cure."
@@revert6417 so dosen't the european people
@@FoysalAhmed-rp1ku That's why Australia got the most population with skin cancer, I guess even nature has its way of getting back at the excessive culling other than the fire
Get your facts right. Whoever reported this story knows nothing about horses.
Two foals a year - my god, a mare has one foal a year not two.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We've made corrections as a pinned comment, in the video description and within the video itself.
Why is the guy showing PIG DAMAGE as brumby damage
Because they can't determine and don't know the difference between rooted ground and grazed ground
Because they just want the Brumbies to get all the blame
Because as can be seen in many of these comments, people will believe anything MM offer up to them 🤦♀️
They are journalists, not zoologists.
There was covert trail Cam footage. It was brumbies
Is it a cruel joke that I got a heartwarming ad for Horseware before watching this?
I had no idea Aus got that much snow anywhere..
Fun fact: Australia has the largest ski resort in the southern hemisphere.
New Zealand could crack that boast open, like an egg, if NZ wasn't so volcanic and even more remote than Tassie.
Interesting that there is such controversy over these horses which are only there because of man they are not natural to Australia and are from domesticated stock. I would think that these horses could be marketed as good tough cattle horses. I agree that if it’s a choice between native species survival or the horses it should be the native species as they have no other way to survive but these horses could survive anywhere man wants them as it was man who put them there.
@MARCUSAURELIUS horses do kill native wildlife and they also destroy their habitat, they cave in the burrows native creatures live in, they trample ecologically important flora species and they cause erosion
Most of Australia is a desert wasteland, has been since before humans brought horses in and will be long after the brumbies are dealt with.
Just get a man from snowy river to round em up 😁
That's the problem people watch movies and think it's real life. I was abused by some old lady whom believes horses roam in a group of 1000+ it's people like her that are the primary supporters of Brumby pests.
Wayne Martin I’m not following you...
The man from snowy river literally is doing that 🙏
@@waynemartin5247 youre a pest. There are billions of humans on the planet. Theyre a bigger problem to the environment
@@443tify Yes 100% correct, all carbon emissions and environmental destruction are multiplied by the magnitude of people. But still it's difficult to advocate the slaughtering of people.
Wow
The fact that they believe a horse has two foals per year is outrageous.
A horse is pregnant fir almost a year and then the foal stays with it's mom for another year and a half.
A mare will only have one foal every two to three years.
You're right Nikko. We've corrected this in a pinned comment, in the video description and within the video itself.
Incorrect . A baby is produced every year . Usually 1 month advanced as they come into heat a month after birth .
@@RodgerMyers Not always, they often don't go in foal every year..
@@TheEquineJournalist not in my experience . In a setting as in the wild or at a farm where stallions and nares are together ... It is rare that a baby is not produced every year .
My experience is that in a natural setting , the mares come into he as 5 a month or so after giving birth . With stallions available , they usually take the first heat cycle . So a year and a month or so , another birth .
I went up to Nunniong in Victoria last Thursday. I seen close to 100 Brumbies compared to 2 wallabies, 0 deer. In fact I reckon I seen more Brumbies than birds! I would estimate in the area alone there must be close to 5 thousand horses due to the shit everywhere. All night horses making noises and so many open grazed fields resembling pastures. Not many native animals there, just horses. So many of them!!! Go to this destination -37.185583, 147.998718 if you don't see at least 100 horses in such a small area then feel free to abuse me. On the Satellite imagery all the damage and pasture like sections are damage caused by wild horses. The headwaters are contaminated and completely trashed by horse.
It’s a beautiful sight truckin through the outback and seeing these beautiful animals.
@@rayyanibrahim451 humans are the bigger problem
@@443tify Difference here is at least we have a limit. If a species goes to the endangered list we have certain protections for it and we have insurance populations in zoos on standby. Horses and other invasives do not have these limits.
@@rayyanibrahim451 humans drive other animals to extinction. We introduce animals to an environment where they dont belong. Humans are the worst invasive species. Invasive species wouldnt exist if it wasnt for us. Most people need to be gone. Stop acting like our existence benefits nature
@@443tify humans are a bigger problem? Great logic, so because there is a “ bigger “ problem it just means to ignore everything else?
@@443tify your argument is so flawed it’s funny. Yes we get humans created the problem. But who’s going to fix it if we disappear? 1. We obviously aren’t going to disappear and 2. Even if we did the problem is still there lol
I have seen lots of Brumbies when I traveled through Snowy Mountain National Park....
I only saw 5 standing under some trees -none stampeding across the land scape in 2021
I’m going to be unpopular. Having been an instructor/coach for decades. Unfortunately a lot of riders want horses to complete fr pony club to show jumping and dressage. Hope brumby’s can fit the bill.
These horses need proper breaking not bronco busting. Take a Whisperer to get these nags done right. Good horseflesh though. My 2cp.
Wen I was young I had a brumbie and competed with in shoes and gymcarners and won menny robins and trophies 🏆 on him
Scenes & wild horses 🐎 🐎 running looking very nice. Appealing to eyes & heart.
Get the cats and rabbits in line first!!!
And cows and sheep
@@carlospedro5554 and the fox
So lemme get this strait, you guys are killing''invasive" feral cats, donkeys, horses, foxes and rabbits, as well as native kangeroos and dingos. My friend had a sign that said 'fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity. How many animals are being killed to save animals. Individual animals matter too
Danger to their way of life.
@Basfordiron i get what you are saying to add to that ..
there not causing problems to native species , actually there helping because they kill foxes and cats ...
What muppet would support feral animals 🤯
Humans are not native to Australia ether and are more destructive than all the feral animals
The jack white humans
@@thejack9178 ??? Fifty thousand years of humans on this continent says otherwise.
The people who's ancestors bought them here in the first place
Start by killing FIRST all the cows and sheep!
Every animal in Australia has numbers out of control!
Inspite of feral animals there are also many feral humans... But sadly there is no other higher organism which can do anything about it.
sounding almost like a mass shooter's manifesto there, my friend.
@@oceso yes i shoot the bullets of truth from my mind in the form of free speech. 🙂
@@vishakhduttsingh1752 maybe if we lern to respect eachothers bobs and vegana everything will be gud..... you may speak the truth but so does oceso so yah... everyone has their own truths in a way
Boy, we have a edgelord over here.
If we really have to cull them and theirs no way that they can stay can we at least replicate an Australian mustang makeover but with our brumbies if we really have to give them a chance to live with us
Eq Story I really really want a mustang makeover thing in Australia!!! I know there is the brumby challenge but it’s not as big
There is one! Yearly at equitana
@@rayyanibrahim451 We don't have ranches or ranchers in Australia.
@@blindfredy6128 yes you do you just call your ranches "Stations"
That would be amazing. I’m a Brit but follow the mustang makeover youtubers with absolute delight. It’s a wonderful thing and it seems to be a model that works, even if it doesn’t solve the whole problem. I’d love to see Australia implementing something similar!
This mirrors the issue with “mustangs” here in the USA. With the same issues; too many horses, no easy answers and no acknowledgment that this can’t continue forever along with the emotional response of those not effected.
horses do way more damage here in Australia . Americas and is use to hard hooved animals and has evolved with them . australia had no hard hooved animals so the who ecology is immensely disrupted to the extinction of many many plants and animals due to the disturbance hard hooves do to the Australian land
Seems we have a few common problems with Australia. Wild horses, pigs and feral cats.
Those mustangs or brumbies should be made into dogfood!
When animals go feral, they need to go! Sad but true! It is essential for native eco respect for this country!
Who’s fault do you think that is? Humans, they have let them escape. They can’t just fix the mistake by killing them!! They deserve a life as well.
So why the feral doesn’t apply on humans when they destroy the forests and world
@@oscammed7712 who's fault is plastic pollution in waterways? humans, they didn't manage their garbage correctly, why would you clean up plastic and destroy it sustainably !!!!! plastic deserves to spend thousands of years floating around poisoning the ecosystem. it seems your magical fairy land solution to feral animals causing intense ecological damage is to just throw our hands up and go "well they are alive too" and run away, leaving our wildlife to die, feral animals are a lot like plastic pollution except the key difference is that ferals can breed so the situation will just get worse and worse if we ignore it, you are only as good as a feral pest, make an effort to change and help the environment heal instead of foolishly protecting the exact things that tarnish our ecosystem
@@oscammed7712 It's your fault, they wouldn't be there if it wasn't for people like you.
Turn wildlife into an industry. Australia is ideal for this kind of thing. Camels, Horses. They are a great resource!
Donate in the form of food to poor Nations.
Donate to zoos in developing countries
Camels horses and other INTRODUCED species are NOT "wildlife"...they are FERAL animals.
You fortunate because lot of animals was being seen around tour country. Here Philippines its rare to seen domestic horses much more in wild horses. Horses in my country is a primary source of of transportation in mountaine area and its important.
Maybe there, but here they are invasive and destroy the environment.
@@rayyanibrahim451 we human are more invasive than this horses
"Mares produce at least two foals a year", what utter hogwash. Horses have a gestation period of 11mths, do the maths ?
It's ABC so of course that's true, they were talking about the brumbies in NSW. It's only when they roam across the border to Victoria they can only have one foal. Everything they tell us is true. Even if they tell us the dingo's were really the backpacker serial killers it would be true.
Insanity. Protecting an introduced species that can be found anywhere in the world when their presence threatens the existence of multiple species that can't be found anywhere else on the planet.
Here in the USA we have the all same issues and arguments with Mustangs our feral horses.
Unlike horses in Australia where they have been introduced by humans. Horses in North america evolved there and migrates into eurasia later so they are beneficial for the North American ecosystems
@@Sebastian-sd1om That is hotly debated here. Are they a reintroduced species or an invasive species?
@@Sebastian-sd1om incorrect by most scientists theories, all feral horses in the United States are introduced from Europe and have a devastating impact on local native animal and plant life in areas they aren't controlled.
@@Sebastian-sd1om - Problem with that thinking is that N America, until relatively recently, had multiple species of really big cats, including American lions and smilodons, along with giant short-faced bears and dire wolves. The remaining carnivores in N America, cougars and grey wolves, aren't very good at controlling horse populations.
I suppose we could release African Lions as a reasonable analog of American lions, but I quite doubt the ranchers would be too keen on that idea. :)
@@rustyshacklford245 - Horses did in fact evolve in N America, and then spread to Eurasia and Africa, during periods when Beringia was above water.
There were native horses in N America as recently as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. But N America also had some predators back then to control horse populations that are now extinct -- along with the native horses.
Meanwhile here in the UK the lack of native ponies is devastating our moorlands , its a hard one ! invasive species are a problem world wide .
How about importing some from Australia.
Both will be benefited.
And what about humans the biggest pest/feral on this planet earth
Not true, humans anciently occupied nearly every environment on the planet.
@Mike Logan feral species, dude you are delusional.
@Mike Logan stay away from sharp things and any more lead paint chips my friend
i agree we should kill inferior humans, and feral invasive animals
@@tballstaedt7807 no we didn’t, humans are native to Africa. If we hadn’t left Africa and stayed living a relatively simple life we wouldn’t be destroying the planet right now. You call other people delusional when your also delusional. Also technically we are an invasive species in fact a MEGA invasive species because of the way we are destroying almost every ecosystem on planet earth
The gestation period for a horse is 11 months. So a mare can not physically have 2 foals a year
The horses definitely don't do as much damadge that humans do. So if anyone has to be culled that is humans.
My gun is aimed at you know watch what you say lol
Sure! As long as you're first.
Well why aren't you leading by example then?
@@zalired8925sure mate. please let me know your address. I will start with you.
@@AthifKhan Yep no worries, my address is: At This Place. What time you reckon you'll be here? I want to have something to eat first.
“I don’t know what crack is like but it can’t be as good as this”😂😂
Gestation period is nearly a year!!
They need to be culled unless someone wants to cough up huge dollars to manage them.
You can't say horses are feral. Along with dogs, horses have served humans loyally and selflessly from time immemorial. We should focus on rejuvenating land rather than culling.
Do you understand how evolution works? Or how invasive species work? Whole lot of ignorance here.
Why is shooting them from the air such an issue? The horses are actively destroying the delicate environment but the people in charge of protecting that environment are too delicate to deal with it.
In the news now is the necessary culling of feral camels in some regions of Australia. A way of creating some economic benefit for cattle farmers who are burdened by feral camels is to organize camel safaris for Australian, European and American hunters. By setting up organized hunts the cattle farmer would benefit in two ways; one would be the fees paid for room and board by those hunters, and the other would be less damage done to the cattle farmer's property because of reduced numbers of camels.
Why don't you put an ad in a few European and American hunters magazines like Wild & Hund, Field & Stream, La Chasse, or Shooting Times.
Why cull feral camels? They sell for a fortune overseas because they culled native camels into extinction - even the rubbish ones make their transport back.
@@psychedashell Thank you for your reply. I did not know that a profitable business case could be made by catching camels and hauling them to some harbour. And then shipping them to some Arab country. Can you please elaborate? What country would buy them?
@@m.b.5839 the nation of Saudi Arabia buys them from Australia quite regularly for three main reasons. the first being that what few native camel populations still remain in Saudi Arabia either are very inbred or a very close to it so they import them from Australia for genetic diversity. second is that the feral camels of australia have evolved several adaptations for survival in the outback that Saudi camels don't have that make them incredibly good for Camel racing, a very popular sport in Saudi. The third being that Australian Camels seem to have a higher level of disease resistance that those found in the middle east.
The damage humans commit on this planet is unforgivable. Disturbing times we are living in.
Mark Sowers we’re getting better, its a slow process
Everyone makes a mistake now and then, she just pretty much doesn't know what she's talking about..... period !
Landline is a very relaxing program. I totally love the ABC.
We should talk about the damage done by European settlers in the Australia,
Settlers or Invaders ?
@@islamahmadzai3432 expats😂😂😂😂
Every single corner on earth has been settled by someone at some stage. Humans have impacted the entire eco system on this planet, not just australia. What a stupid comment
No mares do not produce two foals a year...they gestate for 11-12 months. Where did these people get their info.
Get it correct, horses DO NOT HAVE 2 FOALS A YEAR ONLY 1.
Thanks Robin.
We've corrected this in a pinned comment, in the video description and within the video itself.
Never known a country with so many feral animals
bro like whenever something bothers these people, they literally get rid of them.
🤔 that’s the story of modern humans... ? I don’t think it’s exclusive to one nation or another.
And your native country is a shining example of how to live and let live? ;)
Human: Oh look at all these horses ruining all that grass…
Still Human: Cover pretty much everything under a concrete jungle…
So hypocritical, look at the horses ruining streams and rivers
Go and build dams lol
Ay those horses look healthy af I want them and then I'll tame then 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I was thinking the same 😍😍
@@ginaoh1607 horses are a lot of work...not to mention feeding them isn't cheap...
@@aaronsanborn4291 I know. I had horses when I was younger. However, I still can't and won't ever agree with the way they are being killed.
@@ginaoh1607 when they have no natural predators and are causing massive damage...you need to cull the herds...yeah it sucks but it has to be done.
@@ginaoh1607 we have issues with the mustang herds here in the States ...although the biggest issue we have is wild hogs and in my area it's coyotes....they breed like rabbits.
People just dont get it. Nobody is disputing the horses beauty and intrinsic value.
But they do not belong in the National park. Its that simple. They are a feral species.
Ive seen first hand the damage they do in Kosciusko.
Its insane the level of damage they do to the wetlands.
We also trap, kill and export thousands of feral goats to the US.
I dont hear anyone kicking up a stink about that.
Steve Smith.. I totally agree. The numbers officially released by NPWS state that no more than 2000 horses were counted in KNP. Deer have been counted and estimated at over 1 million and the wild pigs which do most of the damage at over 10,000. There is no way the brumbies which have also been decimated by the fires in the Snowy Mountains would reach this number. Of course numbers need to be managed and licenced hunters should be allowed in when the gates are closed to shoot and hunt deer and pigs. The panel which is still in operation with progressive discussions continuing as what is a sustainable number, and the passive trapping of the brumbies in the winter months must be allowed to continue. We are brumby advocated, yes.. We DO care for the environment and of course all hard hoofed animals will cause some damage. But there are those who are blinkered to all the damage being caused by our wild horses. People within these groups along with the original poster of this thread should stop and be aware that NOT ALL THE NEWS THEY HEAR IS CORRECT.. THE KNP HAS NOT BURNED TO A CRISP.. and to state there are 25,000 horses in the park is totally laughable.. To do this, every single mare would have to have multiple live births.. and only to fillies.. and then those fillies after their first year must also give birth to live multiples! Cheers mate! Let's hope common sense prevails.
auslaner50 but the deer, and I think the pigs too are native to Australia, and the horses are not
Just like the hogs in the U.S the horses are doing the same thing
@@jorgetorresfranco7659 Australia has no native animals with hooves.
Horse is my favourite animal.
Lots of feral animals in Australia, innit.. 😂
yes. only if they learned how to harvest them and market them across the globe for a good source of income.
Specially humans imported from England
Why don't you catch them and export them to other countries.
2 foals a year !!!!, what a lot off propeganda!!!!
I grew up being read Banjo Paterson & Henry Lawson & admit wild horses are an amazing sight , but no hooved animal is native . They have to be controlled somehow , cattle grazing was banned in the high country for or fear causing the same damage the horses do , by that logic they need to go & cattle atleast are of benefit ie ... Meat , jobs & would contribute to the bottom line of the nation .
Deer cause alot of damge aswell .
Watching theses videos makes me wonder how many native animals are left... If it's an invasive species it should be 100% open to removal. For meat, or to be domesticated for riding. Not super popular I know. But you guys have rabbits, camels, cane toads and all sorts of things.
This country has feral horse, goat, camel and rabbits. Wow!
Why the "wow"? Australia is an ISLAND CONTINENT, that evolved its own species of animals that are perfectly suited to its harsh environments.
People's attitude to feral animals and the damage they cause to the environment is very strange. Feral animals shouldn't have any rights to live and as long as they are destroyed humanely, there shouldn't be any argument
Who are you to say what should or shouldn't live? They brought them here, they used them in their wars, planting and harvesting crops, pulling wagons, you name it the horse was used for it. Now they have vehicles and the horse isn't needed any more. They turned them loose not caring if they lived or died. But hey!! They thrived! Now it's a problem, they shoot them!!
100%
How are they surviving the hot dry conditions of Australia
@@TheTazzietiger thanks for the information bro
Waw I thought its hot in tasmania well how hot is tasmania during summer
There been culling samba deer in the high country that have much less impact than horses and creat a lot more money to the economy by hunters control not wipe out and when have Mares been having 2 foals a year reportage story correctly
Mares on average produce one foal every two years. We've made corrections as a pinned comment, in the video description and within the video itself.
This is incorrect on several levels. Deer so far more damage to the Australian eco system than brumbies do and they outnumber brumbies 100:1. Their multi pronged hooves are the issue.
They use to play this show Thowra on South African TV. Guess it was about these horses.
If you must remove some as management of indigenous species protection at least use them constructively if possible.
Horses DO NOT have 2 foals every year. A mare's geostationary period is 11months. If you are doing a documentary then get your facts 100% correct
The Great Basin, USA is known for it's wild "Mustangs". Living in northern Nevada, I can tell you if not controlled, these horses are a huge problem.
I'm just here waiting for the next episode called... "Meet the ferals humans" ;D
"As hard as it is to cull horses"
Yeah na not that hard just put the magazine in cycle the bolt aim at the horse and shoot
I think they are talking about the economic viability of shooting those horses. You have to travel to their habitats, track them down and shoot them. Dispose the bodies if it is required. That's a lot of cost adding up. You can pay people to do that like when they did with the Emu but if you don't pay enough they won't take the job.
@@minhducnguyen674 but then the farmers who own that land will happily shoot the ferals
@@jackschiller8252 Not if they are too far away from the farm. Nobody gonna pay for the fuel cost. If you just shoot the ones getting near your farm, you are not fixing the problem to the root. And if you don't dispose the bodies, it will transmit disease to your cattle. The best way to get an invasive animal population under control is to make it profitable to kill them. But nobody is interested in horses meat. If you don't make full use of the whole body, you will have to pay for the clean up of whatever you left behind. .
5.52.... I don't know what crack is like hahaha
Gold
You guys have a lot of different feral species. Any human species?
Yeah the ones that came from England
Yes, but they're feral.
Camels, rabbits, and horses are all of them over populated?
They found a few puddles of water and make it look like the world has come to an end. More alarmists.
I’m sorry but you are ignorant. You have an emotional attachment to horses but you are not being rational. I’m sure you don’t love cane toads because they’re ugly but but you love horses because they are majestic. But both cause negative impacts on the environment. Just because you don’t see it or understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. Step aside. You’re not helping.
@@antman2826 I totally agree with Taleb. Can I ask you without causing any confrontation ... have you been up to the mountains and had a look around at the so called damage the brumbies have caused. I regularly camp up there and hikee for miles looking for damage and so far have found and photographed only six creek crossings ( with the widest path being 5 foot wide were they cross). I'm not a greenie but someone who wants our parks managed properly.
Introduced species with no predators of course they will destroy everything.
Catch as many as you can and kill the rest.
The 300000 feral horses in Australia will lead to the death of millions of smaller animals.
It's time we started eating and feeding horse meat to our dogs .
@@drbosommd then I suggest you look into the Mexican horse slaughterhouses…horses from the US are shipped from auctions , in the most in humane way ( no food or water, stick hot trucks sometimes for days, and shipped even if they are sick or injured …and many are sick or injured) seeing the horrors of both the transport and the slaughterhouses would break the heart of anyone that has a heart.
@@drbosommd That's too politically unpopular too. It might upset somebody.
Cue cracking whip & famous music.
These beautiful animals should be trained and can be very useful for tourism
nup
I don't get it. Dogs, cats, camels and rabbits get shot everyday. No reaction. My only problem with shooting them is that the corpse is just left there and goes to waste.
I'd say it's good food for scavengers.
Brumby running is the best
It’s the animal extremists that all,talk about the “ stress” the animals experience…saw this in the camel video as well….well living in the wild is stress! And animals can cope wirh stress if it does t last for too long… Animlas do t experience stress like people do…….and claiming they do is a great disservice to the animals…
Horses have been rounded up like this for thousands of years and made good working horses at the end of it……
Mares will produce atleast two foals a year? Someone please tell miss narrator that mare gestation is 11 months and twins are not common.
I love wild horses!! Leave them alone!
Ah another naive childish fool who has no understanding of nature or animals
Nice they deleted my comment lol
Do you understand how evolution works? Or how invasive species work? Whole lot of ignorance here.
Australia is sooo huge, why dont YOU give those majestic living creatures horses, camels, deers, goats, rabbits a dedicated sanctuary, a wide land for them to roam freely and live undisturbed. Let them live and survive.
Greetings from the Philippines .
@Tony chatwin give them THE middle of the outback too far away from coastal human habitation .
@Tony chatwin well im not from australia and WE dont have a similar problem like yours, forgive me if thats my observation and assertion.
Your name suits you well! You have NO idea what you are suggesting!
Sway public opinion to have the horses slaughtered. I remember years ago, when the government did this , people were really pissed off. Talk to the indigenous people who will tell you how much cattle damaged all their water holes/springs, they used for drinking before their lands was used for cattle. Civilisation, urban sprawl has done more damage.
Native animals always are more important.
Thankyou 👍
Stop complaining about other species when it is humans who are the problem! Bigg parts of Australia is burning down and many species are getting wiped out all this because of people!
ole nausene lol please explain how it’s the people. And you honestly think because there’s a “ bigger problem “ it means ignore the other ones? Get a life
@@Marcusb338 humans create climate change climate change create huge fires and droughts huge fires and droughts wipe out animals do you understand? Humans also kill most animals and destroying their habitats. humans are the most destructive invasive species in Australia so yeah fix that problem first. And if people stopped killing all the predators they would naturally control the populations of goats, pigs, cattle, rabbits, buffalo, deer, sheep, horses and the list goes on.
Someone has probably already suggested it but why cant we do up a long term management plan (That doesn't have to include culling/violent means). Like you still have your quick fixes so to speak, but when you cull a starving populous and the food source doubles, the population will inflate again...etc etc. Is gathering groups of horse living in densely populated areas (Or a zone where the populous has the potential to rise in numbers quickly) and gelding colts, or chemically castrating both males and females not a viable thing to plan out? Obviously effectiveness won't be seen right off the bat but doing it in small groups or 'a band' of horses at a time (Whilst marking it down obviously) will have to pay off somewhat in regards to future numbers and the controversial complications of possibly culling more and more animals too. Sterilization will never be a 'quick fix' but if viable would make for a good management strat. When over looking some of these bands of horses, any horses suitable for re-homing can be picked up here too. Probably the euthanizing of any really unhealthy animals as well, goes without saying really. (Just me putting this out there, really interested if someone had similar thoughts... or maybe why this couldn't possibly help?) ;)
I am a proud owner of 2 horses here in the u.s would really like an Australian brumbie for rodeo 🤠
Australia Should Export Wild Animals to Whole World 🌍
Great idea but the cost will be way to much.
Look at the fear in those poor horses ,they like us but better 😢❤️🙏🏻❤️🇬🇧
Do you understand how evolution works? Or how invasive species work? Whole lot of ignorance here.
I don't have a problem with wild horses. Wish I had some in fact.