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Tag: Kosciuszko National Park

You can help the Snowy Brumbies!

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Watch Colleen Krestensen, ABA Vice President on The Country Telegraph then read below to see how you can help Snowy Brumbies The ABA is receiving an increasing number of phone calls, emails and messages from folk concerned about the future of our Snowy Brumbies and wanting to know how they can help. We really appreciate the support and interest and suggest the following: i) Sign the petitions! The ‘stop aerial culling’ petition is now around 260,000. Let’s get it even higher. And if you’re in NSW please sign the Parliamentary petitions that are circulating. See an earlier post for links… Continue reading

Hey ISC – Leave that ACT Alone!

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PRESS RELEASE 27 MARCH 2025 Petitions show Australians want the brumby slaughter to stop. The Australian Brumby Alliance (ABA) today vehemently opposed the call from the Invasive Species Council (ISC) to repeal the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018 and rejected the ISC’s claim to represent the broader NSW or Australian community. The President of ABA, Mrs Nikki Alberts, also called for balance to be restored to this debate, following release of numbers showing original estimates of brumbies in the Park were grossly inflated. Only a small number of wild horses remain, following the ISC’s campaign to reinstate aerial culling… Continue reading

WHERE ARE THE BRUMBY NUMBERS PENNY?

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As expected, Penny Sharpe did not respond to Rod Roberts request for confirmation of the brumby count result. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/papers/pages/qanda-tracking-details.aspx?pk=102822 We have raised our concern with Rob Roberts and the media about the fact that she is refusing to release the brumby numbers from the November count, even when raised in Senate. 48 brumbies have been trapped and sent to rehomers in the last 2 weeks – and heaven knows how many have been trapped and gone to slaughter. If, in her words, the numbers are drastically reduced and there are only 3000 to 4000, why continue trapping and removing them until… Continue reading

Brumby shooting report released, and rejected

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AN upper house committee released its final report on Wednesday into aerial shooting of brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park, but the report has been rejected by the chair of the committee. Chair of the committee, the Hon Emma Hurst MLC, said: “From the outset of this inquiry, it was clear that aerial shooting of brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park is a highly controversial topic. It was always going to be an extremely difficult inquiry.” “Unfortunately as the Chair for this inquiry, I cannot support the final report as published. Unanimous agreement on the findings and recommendations could not be met… Continue reading

NSW government accepts findings of review into brumby rehoming program in Kosciuszko National Park

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from ABC Riverina and ABC website posted 26 June and updated 28 June 2024 In short: A report on the review of the wild horses rehoming program in Kosciuszko National Park has been made public. It has made four key recommendations to strengthen the program, which the NSW Environment Department has accepted in principle. Lynette Sutton is a brumby rehomer based at Berrigan, and said the review is an “acknowledgement of [NPWS] failing their own processes”. “Hopefully, it will see the road forward with rehoming where incidents like Wagga don’t happen again.” photos from ABC website – above: Lynette Sutton… Continue reading