Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Kosciuszko National park

Australia built a $187,000 electric fence across Wild Horse Plain, but the real reason lies beneath one of its rarest alpine wetlands

A new electrified fence protects rare alpine wetlands in Kosciuszko National Park. This enclosure safeguards endangered sphagnum bogs and associated fens from wild horse impacts. Horse activity damages these vital peatland ecosystems and their stored carbon. The $187,000 project was funded by biodiversity offsets from Snowy 2.0. This targeted measure…

The Times of India

Australia built an A$187,000 electric fence across wild horse country; inside lies an endangered alpine wetland supporting three threatened animals

An electric fence protects a rare alpine wetland in Australia's Kosciuszko National Park. This small area is home to three threatened native species found nowhere else. Feral horses damage the delicate peatlands, which store significant amounts of global carbon. Studies show these wetlands release more carbon dioxide when disturbed by…

The Economic Times

Feral horse numbers surge in Kosciuszko national park after pause in aerial culling, survey shows

Conservationists say population rebound demands rethink of retention zones that allow thousands of the animals to remain in the park

The Guardian - AU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

With thousands of feral horses gone, Kosciuszko’s fragile ecosystems are slowly recovering

In Kosciuszko National Park in Australia’s alpine region, the landscape is slowly changing. Patches of native vegetation cropped bald by horses are regrowing. Some long-eroded creek banks look less compacted along the edges. Visitors come across fewer horses standing on the roads, a real traffic hazard.

The Conversation

Australia engaged in ‘unprecedented’ level of surveillance of Chinese flotilla, Marles says – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Decades of searching and a chance discovery: why finding Leadbeater’s possum in NSW is such big news

Until now, Victorians believed their state was the sole home for Leadbeater’s possum, their critically endangered state faunal emblem. This tiny marsupial is clinging to life in a few pockets of mountain ash and snow gum habitat in the Central Highlands of Victoria.

The Conversation

Kosciuszko 'turning point' as hard-hooved horses culled

Ecological recovery is under way in the Australian Alps but new data showing fewer wild horses has come under fresh scrutiny.

AAP

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Scientists hope sequencing genome of tiny ‘functionally extinct’ frog could help save it

Corroboree frog belongs to 100m-year-old family of amphibians but is now found only in the puddles and peat bogs of Kosciuszko national park

The Guardian - AU

Aerial shooting ends after thousands of brumbies culled

Thousands of brumbies have been "removed" from Kosciuszko National Park since shooting from helicopters restarted, bringing a key target within reach.

AAP

Australian hiker found alive after two weeks in Snowy Mountains - survived on berries and muesli

Hadi Nazari, 23, went missing in the remote Kosciuszko National Park in Australia

The Independent UK

Berries, creek water and two muesli bars: how missing hiker survived in Kosciuszko national park

After almost two weeks missing in the rugged Australian Alps, Hadi Nazari has been found alive

The Guardian - AU

'Hero' hiker's incredible survival after 13-days lost

A missing hiker survived on two muesli bars and wild berries for almost two weeks before he was found in a search involving hundreds of rescuers and volunteers.

AAP

Bushwalker found dead as search for student continues

The family of a student missing in a national park say they are praying for his return, while another bushwalker has fallen to his death from a dangerous peak.

AAP

Woman Found Alive After Suspected Snake Bite During Solo Hike

Woman missing in Snowy Mountains found after suspected snake bite, survived nearly two weeks. Rescue efforts and environmental conservation in the region h...

Top News

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

AAP

Police should have searched for missing skier earlier

The search for a skier who died in Kosciuszko National Park took too long to start after he was reported missing, the NSW state coroner has found.

AAP

Legal loss welcomed as mass brumby shooting continues

A group of bush users are the latest to fail in a legal bid to stop the NSW government shooting brumbies from helicopters in Kosciuszko National Park.

The Guardian - AU

More than 5,000 feral horses culled in Kosciuszko national park since aerial shooting resumed

Conservationist says for first time number of animals removed exceeds annual population growth

AAP

Step-in threat as state on notice over feral horse cull

A zero-tolerance approach to feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park has been flagged by the federal government if culling fails to stop environmental harm.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

AAP

Kosciuszko brumby shoot underway but will it be enough?

Experts say with aerial shooting approved, at least 6000 wild brumbies will need to removed from Kosciuszko National Park each year to meet reduction targets.

AAP

Brumby cull workers harassed amid 'heated' debate

Rangers carrying out feral-horse culling are being targeted by people who oppose it as brumby advocates are left distressed by the population control measure.

AAP

'Humane' repeat-shooting of brumbies during trial cull

Hundreds of brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park have been shot dead as part of a trial of aerial shooting to control feral horse numbers.

The Guardian - AU

Aerial shooting of feral horses in Kosciuszko national park begins

270 horses were shot during a two-day trial with no reports of unnecessary animal harm or suffering

The Guardian - AU

Feral horses to be shot from the air at Kosciuszko national park as entire ecosystem ‘under threat’

NSW environment minister Penny Sharpe says ‘threatened native species are in danger of extinction’ after authorising aerial cull

ABC News

Horse's head dumped at NSW Snowy Mountains National Parks Office disgusts staff

Police are investigating after a man filmed himself leaving a decapitated horse head on the doorstep of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) office in the NSW Snowy Mountains.

ABC News

New species of butterfly identified as spotted trident-blue, native to ACT and parts of Kosciuszko National Park

The spotted trident-blue butterfly was first photographed in 2017, but has only just been formally identified.

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Biodiversity Council

National Parks and Wildlife Service

22 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.