Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 | Meet the Ferals Ep 1 | ABC Australia
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- 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....
Original video description: Brumbies, or wild horses, are both loved and loathed as either a heritage horse or feral pest. It makes controlling their numbers more difficult. 📺Watch the full series here: • Meet The Ferals | Land...
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Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 • The complex conundrum ...
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 • The devastating impact...
Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 • Big bucks: feral goats...
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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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?
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
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
Hahahaha "I dunno what cracks like but i cant be as good as this"... thats awesome lol.
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!
Australia used to be the home of the Megalania. Monitor lizards were the main predator on land with crocs in the water. Humans arrived and Megalania went extinct along with the other large monitors, the only one of Australia's giants that remains is the Komodo Dragon which is now only found in Indonesia. Humans introduced dogs which became dingoes but they are no help in the horse crisis because they are too weak to hunt large prey.
@@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...
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Exactly! Brumbies do different damage to the ecosystem people. Pigs damage the ecosystem in one way and brumbies the other. Another example of a misinformed TV journalist. We still need to remove the brumbies but pretending feral hog/pig damage as brumbie damage isn't helping anyone. Of course these reporters either don't give a shit about getting their facts right (as shown by the "two foals a year" statement) or seriously can't tell the difference.
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!
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 .
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
@MARCUSAURELIUS Then keep them in an enclosure, not running out destroying our native wildlife. You know what else build Australia? Native wildlife. Without them Australia would be a desert wasteland
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.
📺Watch the full series here: th-cam.com/play/PL7HSPnTFVAuE8-9WN1eFHS8QvdWcyJaSU.html
Ep 1: Covet, catch or cull: managing feral horses in Australia 🐎 th-cam.com/video/hBJN8BOK4oI/w-d-xo.html
Ep 2: Feral cats - Australia's native animal annihilators 😼🦜 th-cam.com/video/VaB9J8JHVxI/w-d-xo.html
Ep 3: The complex conundrum of wild deer in Australia 🦌 th-cam.com/video/Aa7Ehl9UcHY/w-d-xo.html
Ep 4: The devastating impact of Australia's wild dogs 🐕 th-cam.com/video/qLMehMZWq80/w-d-xo.html
Ep 5: Big bucks: feral goats recognised as a serious asset 🐐 th-cam.com/video/ZJGvqmKsApk/w-d-xo.html
Ep 6: 160 year battle against one of Australia's worst invasives 🐇 th-cam.com/video/778Da7NCF6s/w-d-xo.html
Ep 7: Damage, death & disease: devastating effects of wild boars 🐗 th-cam.com/video/t22hkF0A6h8/w-d-xo.html
Ep 8: Outback camels: culls and carcasses or milk and meat? 🐪 th-cam.com/video/PTCeqO0g-sM/w-d-xo.html
Ep 9: Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways 🐟 th-cam.com/video/lvxJVvFiUGY/w-d-xo.html
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
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.
Scenes & wild horses 🐎 🐎 running looking very nice. Appealing to eyes & heart.
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
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 ...
Horse is my favourite animal.
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.
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.
Every animal in Australia has numbers out of control!
But aren't Australians invasives themselves? I mean pot & kettle
@Wattle but you all don't. PLUS the Native population has been decimated by you all's presence and behavior.
Do you understand how evolution works? Or how invasive species work? Whole lot of ignorance 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
We need a really big one. The cull should drop the numbers down to a point were we can round all of the others up and sell them as pets to ranchers.
@@rayyanibrahim451 We don't have ranches or ranchers in Australia.
@@blindfredy6128 yes you do you just call your ranches "Stations"
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?) ;)
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.
5.52.... I don't know what crack is like hahaha
Gold
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
@@daniloboligorjr6231 We at least have programs to bring back critically endangered species. They do not.
No mares do not produce two foals a year...they gestate for 11-12 months. Where did these people get their info.
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.
I'm just here waiting for the next episode called... "Meet the ferals humans" ;D
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.
It’s a beautiful sight truckin through the outback and seeing these beautiful animals.
Beautiful sight sure, but not worth losing native species.
@@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?
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.
“I don’t know what crack is like but it can’t be as good as this”😂😂
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
Never known a country with so many feral animals
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.
You guys have a lot of different feral species. Any human species?
Yeah the ones that came from England
Yes, but they're feral.
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
I don't understand what the animals are damaging while most of Australia is desert like
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.
How many feral animals do you have? Rabbits, deer, goats, carp, horses, cats? Between the first people and dingos this problem could have been dealt with.
Do you understand how evolution works? Or how invasive species work? Whole lot of ignorance here.
"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.
The gestation period for a horse is 11 months. So a mare can not physically have 2 foals a year
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.
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.
Gestation period is nearly a year!!
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.
I'm frm a small pacific island & I would like to introduce horses on my island because we have no cars & I feel they might just be useful with us.
perekentina sato which island?
@@mtbrider1287 chuuk islands in Micronesia.
perekentina sato is there corona in your island?
@@mtbrider1287 corona the beer or the virus?
perekentina sato virus
What about dingoes, can’t they control horses,camels,pigs and so on?
They need to be culled unless someone wants to cough up huge dollars to manage them.
Protect at all costs. I don't agree with breaking in of Brumbys. So what's next use them for race horses then once they have done with them they get rid of them?
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.
"most unique". The ABC is no better at English than the commercial channels.
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
Feral pigs, horses, deers, rabbit and goats how many more feral species there are in Australia?
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
Australia have so many ferals. Is it because we don’t have much predators in the wild? Like big cats?
2 foals a year !!!!, what a lot off propeganda!!!!
O man,you guys should give me this horses man.
Everyone makes a mistake now and then, she just pretty much doesn't know what she's talking about..... period !
Cue cracking whip & famous music.
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……
Interesting.Everyone likes horses,but it's not a native species. The headwaters of the drinking supply should be the priority. I had no idea Oz was overrun by horses,camels,cats,dogs,mice etc.
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.
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.
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.
I don't have a problem with wild horses. Wish I had some in fact.
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.
Landline is a very relaxing program. I totally love the ABC.
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.
Mares will produce atleast two foals a year? Someone please tell miss narrator that mare gestation is 11 months and twins are not common.
These beautiful animals should be trained and can be very useful for tourism
nup
Meanwhile in Australia - "Feral Pikachu..."
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!
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.
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.
If you must remove some as management of indigenous species protection at least use them constructively if possible.
Why not export the surplus horses to France for food, and earn foreign exchange in return for conservation?
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
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
@@devinb3397 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.
They use to play this show Thowra on South African TV. Guess it was about these horses.
I am a proud owner of 2 horses here in the u.s would really like an Australian brumbie for rodeo 🤠