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Take action: Managing our purring assassins

Murderers in fur coats Make no mistake, free-roaming and feral cats are one of the greatest killing machines to ever tread upon the Australian continent. They wreak havoc on native […]...

Victorian Cat Management Strategy

VNPA’s submission to the Victorian Cat Management Strategy Free-roaming and feral cats are one of the greatest killing machines to ever tread upon the Australian continent. Their growing presence...

Red Deer grazing, Moora Track, Grampians National Park, Victoria Australia . Photo: Rexness | Flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0

National Feral Deer Action Plan welcomed by conservationists

NEWS 16 August 2023 | Feral deer are spreading in droves across Victoria and Australia. There is a serious need to coordinate their management and removal across public and private […]...

Submission: Impacts and management of feral horses in the Australian Alps

VNPA Submission: Impacts and management of feral horses in the Australian Alps...

Evidence should rule

PARK WATCH December 2018 | The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service banned its ecologists from attending a November conference on the impacts of Kosciuszko’s feral horses. That didn’t...

Feral horses aren’t good for the high country – conservationists call for removal

MEDIA RELEASE 7 February 2018 | Conservationists support a sustained program to remove feral horses from the magnificent but fragile Alpine National Park, to reduce impacts on threatened species,...