Feral Horse damage in Victoria

"This image of Native Cat Flat demonstrates the effects of overgrazing and trampling by feral horses. The only remaining habitat for wetland-dependent plants occurs within the fenced enclosures, which are maintained by Parks Victoria." - Parks Victoria Imagine what our alpine national parks would look like without feral horses and deer trashing the place? That long, thick grass cover you see in the fenced enclosures is home, food and protection for our native wildlife like the mastacomys, or broad-toothed rat. It filters and stores the water that is the headwaters for the mighty Murray, Murrumbidgee and Snowy rivers. It stores carbon in the landscape. It stops the fragile alpine soils eroding away. This is a stark demonstration of our Australian heritage being desecrated by invasive species.