• Promoting and protecting Australian Brumbies living in sustainable numbers

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You can help the Snowy Brumbies!

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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 to these. ii) Write respectful letters to key NSW politicians, explaining that humane treatment and preservation of a sustainable brumby population… Continue reading

Sarah King publishes two new papers on feral horses and donkeys

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Sarah King, research scientist with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory in the Warner College of Natural Resources (Colorado State University), recently published two papers on wild horses and donkeys in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology and in Animal Behaviour.  One paper examines how evolutionary history and habitat influence their behaviors. The other paper looks at factors that affect reproductive success in wild horse populations in Utah, in particular male behavioural patterns. To view the article and access the source papers, click on the link below. 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