Victorian Alpine Brumbies /
2024 Alpine National Park (VIC)
2024 Alpine National Park (VIC)
‘Feral horses don’t know state borders’: the push to protect Victoria’s Alpine national park
Native species are losing ground in Victoria’s Alpine park as the brumby population booms
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Trampling Victoria's Alps: how brumbies are destroying the native habitat
The Guardian | Videographer, Journalist, Editor | 2024
At Native Cat Flat in Victoria’s Alpine national park, four fenced-off areas show a strikingly different ecology, highlighting the damage wrought by more than 2,700 feral horses in the area. Behind the fences, lush sphagnum, dense vegetation, grass tussocks, shrubs and herbs thrive. Outside the plots, the ground is pockmarked with deep hoofprints, and the native grasses are overgrazed, exposing endangered animals in the area — which rely on dense vegetation — to predators ‘Feral horses don’t know state borders’: the push to protect Victoria’s Alpine national park
At Native Cat Flat in Victoria’s Alpine national park, four fenced-off areas show a strikingly different ecology, highlighting the damage wrought by more than 2,700 feral horses in the area. Behind the fences, lush sphagnum, dense vegetation, grass tussocks, shrubs and herbs thrive. Outside the plots, the ground is pockmarked with deep hoofprints, and the native grasses are overgrazed, exposing endangered animals in the area — which rely on dense vegetation — to predators ‘Feral horses don’t know state borders’: the push to protect Victoria’s Alpine national park