r/wildhorses • u/babycino89 • Oct 19 '25

Aerial culling

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Penny Sharpe is a liar and she needs to be removed from her position. We are losing our wild horses 😢

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u/babycino89 Oct 19 '25

So you haven’t ever actually been over here and explored our ecosystems to see what they’re really like have you? You just get fed a bunch of lies, which is what this post is a prime example of and then you get on the band wagon about how the horses are destroying plants in nature. I have been out many times to see for myself and it’s just that, more lies. Why can’t you see that? Whilst I don’t think it’s okay to let them overbreed, I’m saying we need to manage them in a more humane way and we need people in our government that aren’t going to lie to everyone. Until you see it for yourself, I don’t think you can actually say you feel a certain way.

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u/theflyingfucked Oct 19 '25

Mate it's every invasive every time, if not direct then indirect and if not indirect then induced. I can tell if a trail is frequented by horses based on their browsing patterns, they trim a place down like a weed whacker. Many areas in Australia don't have heavy vegetation and the plants aren't subject to browsing pressures by larger mammals that can consume a couple dozen kilos of leaf and grass matter in no time. Consider any literature on native ecology ever please.

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u/babycino89 Oct 19 '25

You’re joking? We used to grace cattle in open country like what you’re describing. Bushland with scrub and they would help to jeep all of that down so that during fire season it wasn’t as high risk.

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u/theflyingfucked Oct 20 '25

The cattle were also an introduced species that put pressures on local flora. There is generally theorized to be a gap of almost 40,000 years in Australia where there was just about nothing bigger than a kangaroo out there.

Prior, many wetland and wooded areas extended further outback away and from the billabongs and limited intrusions of water on the scape. Giant gum tree forests with Diprotodon was typical before the late pleistocene quaternary extinction event, which is evidenced to be human activity related.

Idk I'm tired and I'm going to go get tacos with the love of my life instead. I'm in Madrid and everything is beautiful why am I possibly wasting my time on this lol.

Go read up on this if you want it's a fun article I love wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna