Are Horses a Feral Animal in Australia?
It’s estimated that Australia is home to 400,000 feral horses, all of whom pose a complex management problem, as horses often hold a great deal of economic and cultural value. How Did Feral Horses Become a Problem? Like most introduced species, horses first arrived in Australia with the first fleet in 1788. Over the coming...
What Feral Animal Control Methods are Used in Australia?
Feral animals are a real problem in Australia. Since European settlement, a number of native Australian flora and fauna have had to compete with introduced plant and animal species, which have impacted the survival rates of native species, as well as our ecosystem. One of the main reasons for the increasing number of feral animal...
Australia’s Infestation of Wild Swine
When the first fleet came to Australia in 1788, they brought pigs with them. Initially kept in unrestrained and semi-feral conditions, escape was easy, so by the 1880s pigs had started to run wild in New South Wales. Today, the feral pigs occupying Australia by the millions are descendant from various breeds of domestic pigs....
Feral Animal Control: Wild Cats
Did you know that in Australia feral cats cover 99.8% of Australia with a density of one cat for every four square kilometres? While the overall number of wild cats in Australia is unknown, it’s estimated that there are as many as eight million prowling our land. To put this into perspective, one feral cat...
