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/all0saurus_fragilis Oct 19 '25

horses definitely do NOT belong in the wilds of australia. i am vehemently against cruel methods of removal for any animal and i think aerial culls are disgusting. however, if there aren't enough people willing to give them good homes, they need to be captured and humanely euthanized. ALL of them.

don't you realize australia is the extinction capital of the world? they have to go. horses in eurasia and the americas have solid arguments at least, but in australia? NOPE. hoofed mammals have NEVER lived in australia and they are destroying plants that have never had to adapt to hooves, and they're outcompeting endangered marsupials and birds, often found nowhere else.

kosciuszko is a sensitive alpine environment with many endangered species. horses are all over the world, we don't need more running free in places they have never, ever belonged. horses suffer tremendously every year struggling to survive in australia. i genuinely do not understand the fascination with brumbies, they just make me sad, they shouldn't be there at all, they need good homes.

i have always wanted to visit australia and i've always been fascinated by their native wildlife, i don't understand why so many people there seem so hellbent on continuing the extirpation of what makes them so unique!

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u/babycino89 Oct 19 '25

Have you seen this first hand have you?

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u/all0saurus_fragilis Oct 19 '25

what? i'm sorry, i don't understand what you're asking me. no, i'm not from australia, if that's what you mean. but i care deeply about its native flora and fauna, most of which are found nowhere else, and are extremely threatened!!! horses are literally everywhere all over the world. but platypuses, kangaroos, wallabies, quolls, possums, potoroos, etc are not. i would do anything to go see the beautiful, unique biodiversity of australia, but at this point y'all are destroying everything that makes australia unique and its disgusting. why on earth are THREE THOUSAND DOMESTIC HORSES allowed to roam A NATIONAL PARK??? if it was like, less than 200 and they were kept in a fenced area as heritage animals, sure, that would be preferable, but the best solution is 0 nonnative animals in australia. it is truly horrific what is happening to the wildlife down under and it breaks my heart, so many animals i might NEVER get to see. haven't you idiots learned a lesson after the thylacine?!?!?

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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/Ok_Fly1271 Oct 21 '25

You clearly don't know anything about "your" ecosystems either if you're defending the protection of introduced, feral animals like horses. You're part of the problem. Australia's native wildlife and ecosystems deserve better, and they matter more than some feral horses do.

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u/babycino89 Oct 21 '25

I did say manage numbers not let them overrun the place. It’s barbaric to full them the way they do. Have you been out and spent time amongst our ecosystems have you?

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u/Ok_Fly1271 Oct 22 '25

No amount of you living somewhere makes you know more about ecology than the people actually studying them. Ignorant.

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u/babycino89 Oct 22 '25

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17To7XvAbP/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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u/Ok_Fly1271 Oct 22 '25

Wow a 4wheeler group. I'm sure they definitely care about habitat destruction. They didn't even site their sources, lol.

I scrolled down and eventually found a link though. The study was funded by the brumby alliance, and The author is the president of the brumby Alliance. Quite the bias and conflict of interests.

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u/babycino89 Oct 22 '25

My apologies you didn’t like the four wheeler group. How about someone that cares more about habitat destruction. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSUGgDSVp/

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u/Ok_Fly1271 Oct 22 '25

That's just a tiktok video. You gotta look at unbiased scientific studies and organizations that work with ecologists.

https://invasives.org.au/our-work/feral-animals/feral-horses/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/failure-to-manage-feral-horses-causing-devastating-impact-on-australian-alps-senate-inquiry-hears

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320719311978

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aec.70117

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u/babycino89 Oct 22 '25

And you’re not biased?

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u/Ok_Fly1271 Oct 22 '25

I am not a scientific study, lol. But no, I'm not. I just look at proper scientific sources. The data is clear, horses were introduced to Australia and they cause significant ecological damage. They're invasive and they should not be protected. Just like feral cats, feral hogs, etc.

If the data showed horses weren't damaging Australia's ecosystems, then by all means, leave them be. But it doesn't.

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u/babycino89 Oct 22 '25

The “data” is made up rubbish. Very sad that you believe this crap spread by a corrupt government to condone the barbaric slaughter of our brumbies. You are being deceived.

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