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Australian Brumby Alliance Inc.

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  • About ABA About ABA Formed in 2008 by a number of wild horse rescue organisations throughout Australia, the Australian Brumby Alliance (ABA) is concerned with the promotion, protection and humane management of Australian Wild Brumby horses.
  • About Brumbies About Brumbies Historically, the Brumby was valued for its endurance, strength, reliability and all round agility, and many of the old bloodlines evolved into what we now know as the Waler or the Australian Stock horse.
  • Meet Our Members Meet Our Members While ABA does not dictate how individual wild horse member groups operate, membership is contingent upon the group having consistent/similar objectives to ABA principles and activities and preferably a ‘not for profit’ status.
  • ABA Newsletter ABA Newsletter ABA produces a quarterly newsletter, Brumby Bridges which highlights the activities of ABA, its member groups and wild horse issues in Australia and abroad.
  • Humane Management Humane Management The ABA advocates for humane management of wild horses. To this end, we are involved with a number or projects that aim to either progress best practice or expose and eliminate cruelty. Where possible, we endeavor to work with governments and organisations such as the RSPCA and Animals Australia to achieve acceptable outcomes.
  • FertilityControl FertilityControl Wild horse populations in many parts of the world are competing for resources with other species in the environment. Various legislation and government policies are now requiring control of wild horse populations and sometime this includes lethal control. While Fertility Control is not the total answer, it has a potential to add a humane and non-lethal control strategy to the management of wild horse populations.
  • Passive trapping Passive trapping Passive Trapping aims to capture horses with minimal interference from humans. Horses are allowed to enter the traps themselves to access food, water or salt licks. Traps can be very large or small but all have a gate that can be triggered to shut when horses enter or access the food, water or lick.
  • Re-Homing Re-Homing In simple terms, Re-Homing is the process of relocating brumby horses from a wild situation, be it a government conservation area or a station property and settling them into a domestic environment. But nothing is quite that simple and to successfully and humanely take a brumby from the wild and take it to the point of ownership involves a number of steps.
  • How You Can Help How You Can Help If you would like to help protect and preserve Australian Brumbies…Support our Member Groups, Adopt a Brumby, Report inhumane practices, write to your local Member of Parliament....
  • Hitching Posts Hitching Posts All public News and Events and other posts are displayed below. To select a News Category or select a Tag, use the right side menus or selection boxes.
  • Australian Brumby Challenge Australian Brumby Challenge Modelled on the US Mustang Challenge, the VBA launced this event in July 2013 to showcase the amazing versatility of our Heritage Brumbies as well as a wide range of professional and non-professional trainers.

     
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Cultural Meanings of Wild Horses

From The Conversation, excerpts from an article by Michael Adams (University of Wollongong) on the Cultural Meanings of Wild Horses….

“The Kosciuszko wild horses are also tangled within the embedded idiosyncrasies and contradictions of the largest national park in New South Wales. Here there are protected populations of two species of invasive fish (brown and rainbow trout) that are demonstrably responsible for local extinctions of native fish and frog species; a gigantic hydro-electric scheme with dominant infrastructure across large areas of the park; and expanding ski resorts where it is possible to buy lodges. Much of the landscape that is now part of the park has a long history of summer grazing by sheep and cattle, with stockworkers’ huts scattered across the high country. This “wilderness” has been home to Aboriginal people for millennia, as well as well-known grazing grounds for more than a century.

These complexities and contradictions reflect our often unconscious modern propensity for hubris: we insist we are in charge of what happens on the planet, including in its “wild” places and “wild” species. Terms like “land management”, “natural resource management”, and “conservation management”, all reflect this assumption of superiority and control.

…. Perhaps our task is to harmonise ourselves with these old and new environments, not continually attempt to “manage” them into some other state that we in our hubris think is more desirable, whether ecologically, economically or culturally.”

To read the full article…. More

 

October 13, 2017 by ABAAdmin1842 Posted in News Tagged heritage, history, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, NZ, rewilding

Students honour Indigenous soldiers riding Brumbies to Alice Springs

Australian Brumby Alliance Inc. Posted on April 27, 2017 by ABAAdmin1842April 27, 2017

On April 24, in Alice Springs a group of 36 students from a remote Central Australian Community finished their 127 kilometre ride through the desert on wild brumbies to honour Indigenous soldiers…. ….The trip is part of a community driven program, … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged heritage, history, Indigenous, NT

A Short History of High Plains Wild Horses from Kiandra to Peppercorn

Australian Brumby Alliance Inc. Posted on August 22, 2016 by ABAAdmin1842August 22, 2016

Ted Taylor,  from Northern KNP is knowledgeable of the background and origins of various Snowy Brumby breed types, from: Kiandra Yarrangobilly Caves. Long Plain/Currango Peppercorn, Broken Cart and Brindabella, and Coolamine   Below is his account of the history of … Continue reading →

Posted in Wild Equines Around the World | Tagged heritage, history, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

Freedom of Species Podcast: Killing off the Kosciuszko Brumbies

Australian Brumby Alliance Inc. Posted on July 25, 2016 by ABAAdmin1842July 25, 2016

The Freedom of Species radio show draws on all disciplines that have a fascination, an appreciation and a belief in a better world for all animals: conservation, philosophy, sociology, art, literature, science, film, history, politics and the vegan and animal … Continue reading →

Posted in News | Tagged heritage, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Wild Horse Management Plan

Kosi Brumbies have National Cultural Heritage Value

Australian Brumby Alliance Inc. Posted on July 22, 2016 by ABAAdmin1842July 22, 2016

The following is an excerpt from the executive summary of the National Cultural Heritage Values Assessment & Conflicting Values Report to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.  This report informed NSWNPWS in preparing its draft Wild Horse Management Plan … Continue reading →

Posted in ABA Comment, News | Tagged heritage, history, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, Wild Horse Management Plan

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