00:00 There's been a lot of politics which have led to again delay and inaction which have
00:05 seen that population of feral horses increase by just in the last couple of years 30%.
00:10 So we're now at over 18,000 feral horses trashing and trampling the roof of Australia.
00:16 Today the Labor government has said that they are looking at potentially amending the plan
00:20 to allow aerial shooting, which we know for all other vertebrate pests is what's used
00:25 to get on top of those populations.
00:27 And only for some politics has not been allowed in New South Wales in Kosciuszko National
00:31 Park.
00:32 So this I think reflects the fact that public sentiment is shifting.
00:35 All parties went to the last election saying that they wanted to get on top of the feral
00:39 horse issue, they wanted to rapidly reduce those numbers.
00:42 And we know that while people don't like to see animals killed, the sad reality is that
00:47 we've got a choice to make between allowing these feral horse populations to continue
00:51 to grow and seeing our native animal populations decline or getting on top of that, reducing
00:58 their numbers rapidly and seeing a recovery of some of the most sensitive environments
01:02 in Australia.
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