Category: ABA Media Release

Parks Victoria Push Rehoming Group to flout CONVID-19 restrictions

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Ms Pickering, President, Australian Brumby Alliance (ABA) is “horrified at Parks Victoria’s (PV)selfish actions to trap and transport three Brumbies from Mt. Nelse to a Brumby rescue’s nearby collection point after Professor Sutton’s (https://www.google.com/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/12099294) clear warning to all Victorians to “Do the right thing now and stay at home today, tomorrow, until we’re through this, please” and “If you are flouting rules, you will be punished.” It is inconceivable, continued Ms Pickering, that Parks Victoria has trapped these three Brumbies, then dropped them at a temporary holding point with no feed to tide them over for the period we are… Continue reading

Parks Victoria to Exterminate ALL of Barmah’s Heritage Brumbies

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The Hon. Lilly D’Ambrosio has approved Parks Victoria’s (PVs) Strategic Action Plan Protection of Floodplain Marshes Barmah National Park and Barmah Forest Ramsar Site 2020 – 2023 (the plan). The Australian Brumby Alliance (ABA) strongly rejects PV’s claim that removing Barmah’s Brumbies is an immediate priority as “Brumbies are the most destructive of Barmah’s feral species”. The ABA’s goal is to support the retention of sustainable Brumby numbers in their historic homelands. We are deeply shocked and horrified to see this Barmah Brumby eviction plan based on propaganda. Jill Pickering, ABA’s President said that PV advised that the numbers of… Continue reading

From fire to bloodbath – Reclaim Kosci desire to prolong KNP’s suffering

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ABA Media release: Monday 20-January-2020 From fire to bloodbath – Reclaim Kosci desire to prolong KNP’s suffering The Australian Brumby Alliance (ABA) is very disappointed to see the further depths the Invasive Species Council’s (ISC) Reclaim Kosci has sunk to in its kill Brumbies crusade with renewed calls for NSW government to take action to protect Kosciuszko National Park from post fires feral horse grazing with an effective, humane and science-based management plan. Reclaim Kosci’s action is odd and in contempt given that Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018 Scientific and Community Advisory panels are already developing an… Continue reading

ABA responds to paper on “Impacts of feral horses in the Australian Alps and evidence-based solutions 2018” by Driscoll, et al

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A stream of “new” research items have been embraced by media, even though they are only a rearrangement of the 2018 conference abstracts. How can a paper presumable been peer reviewed have such inaccuracies and claim to be evidence based with so little evidence? More… Continue reading