Hundreds of wild horses in Australia are facing their end after the officials have approved a shooting cull claiming their populations have grown too big.
In accordance with Victoria Supreme Court’s final decision, over one thousand wild brumby horses that reside in the Australian Alps will be culled as officials have estimated that their numbers have grown from several thousand to over 24,000 in the last few years.
The plan to cull some 1,200 wild horses was brought up in 2018, whereas Parks Victoria CEO, Matthew Jackson, recently elaborated that the decision was made to preserve biodiversity and other native species.
“Parks Victoria has a legal and moral obligation to protect the native species that are at risk of extinction from the impacts of feral horses and other pest animals,” the Parks Victoria officials wrote in a statement shared on their website on May 15, 2020.
According to the statement, native animals and plants are at risk due to the trampling and grazing that come along with an increased number of feral horses.
As the officials went on to suggest, removing “invasive herbivores” from delicate areas will provide native species with better chances of survival.
The statement also touched the topic of the country’s deadly bushfires and insisted that the devastation of natural habitats placed native species at an additional exposure to feral horses that now have less space to graze and wander around.
While the agency has been given a green light, plenty of communities and animal lovers appear to oppose the cull.
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