A decade of Anti-Brumby rhetoric has been challenged by new research showing over 99% of Bogong High Plains and 82% of the Eastern Victorian Alps had NO impact from horses.
ABA Media Release 7 July 2023 The recent study Use of density-impact functions to inform and improve environmental out-comes of feral horse management (Berman et al. 2023), published by Wildlife Biology, has upturned negative claims about the environmental impacts of Alpine horses and how best to help native species. Central to the new research is the premise that to better manage wild horses in the environment it is important to understand the relationship between horse density and the percentage of environmental impact attributed to horses. A key finding from the density-impact work is that, in the areas studied, below a… Continue reading