Download or View: Brumby Bridges Sept 2015 (1.5 Mb) IN THIS ISSUE Dartmoor National Park Wild Equus Network Member News Kaimanawa Stallion Makeover Challenge Horse tales from the 2003 Canberra fires Bushfire Planning for Horse Agistment Continue reading
In an unprecedented environmental conservation effort, Jirku and his team of scientists have handpicked a specific pony breed native to England—the Exmoor—and placed it on former military landscapes less than an hour northeast of Prague. Their goal? To have nature take its course, with large herbivores grazing and fertilizing the land, in hopes of one day restoring it to the rich and productive territory it used to be before World War II. To read the full article….. http://www.thehorse.com/articles/36342/exmoor-ponies-help-revamp-the-czech-republics-landscape Continue reading
A genetic study of a remote population of wild horses in Western Canada has posed a raft of new questions about their origins, with the results revealing an intriguing link to the Yakut horses of Siberia. It is assumed that the horses observed by European fur traders in the early 1800s in association with Tsilhqot’in First Nations in the Chilcotin area of south central British Columbia were descended from Spanish-derived horses brought in about 1740 along native trade routes from plateau grasslands in what is now Washington State. Today, an estimated 1,000 feral horses still survive in remote areas of… Continue reading
A contraception programme has been launched in south Wales to combat the increasing number of horses and ponies on common land. Read more at : http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/swhp-contraception-horses-south-wales-499585 Continue reading
The June 2015 edition of Brumby Bridges is now available online – Brumby Bridges June 2015 In this issue….. The Burra Charter Visiting the Kaimanawa Heritage Horses Member News Rethinking Conservation Approaches – Prioritising Solutions Not Threats Continue reading
