Parks Victoria’s draft Horse Strategic Action Plan to remove every single brumby from their historic home range on the Bogong High Plains and drastically reduce wild horse numbers across the Alpine National Park – appears to be based on a flawed impact study. More…. Continue reading
You may have heard that there are moves in the federal government to open up a market in the live export of ponies, horses and donkeys for slaughter overseas. Under questioning in Senate Estimates from Senator Derryn Hinch, Departmental officials confirmed that a number of enquiries had been made about exporting horses and donkeys “in large numbers for slaughter”. Various groups, including Canberra’s rspca and the Australian Equine Unification Scheme groups have worked to raise awareness about this – but until Senate Estimates there was nothing recorded in the public domain to share. With Darren Hinch, raising this issue in the… Continue reading
ABA Press Release – 6-Sept-2016 Alpine Brumbies used as Scapegoats ABC Gippsland (Victorian Government Mulls Brumby Cull, 5-Sept-2016) reported claims made by the Environment Minister Lily D’Ambrosio that thousands of brumbies are causing damage in the Victorian Alps. The latest count of 2,350 Brumbies in the Victorian Alps is tiny compared to feral pigs, deer and rabbit numbers. Furthermore, Brumbies do not foal every year, but pigs, deer and rabbits have annual multiple births. Multiple birth species can recover rapidly from a cull. Even our scientists have started blaming Brumbies, simply because they are in the area. Nocturnal pigs and… Continue reading
At last the long awaited draft plan is now released and open for public comment until 8 July 2016. A Media Release by the NSW Minister for the Environment states that it is intended to maintain a permanent number of horses in the park with the aim of protected both the cultural and environmental heritage of the Park. However it is planned to reduced horse numbers from 6000 to appoximately 600 in the next 20 years. ABA notes in its own Press Release that : “One wild fire will easily wipe out 600 Brumbies and result in the instant extinction… Continue reading
ABA is appalled that the views of NSW National Parks and Wildlife Services have been aired in a recent Sunday Telegraph article, Time is running out for wild brumbies made famous the Man From Snowy River movie, ahead of the recommendations by an expert panel review and release of the Draft KNP Management Plan. Furthermore, ABA refutes the statements made in the Sunday Telegraph article and has written to the NSW Minister for the Environment and Heritage. ABA’s letter to the Minister and Media Release can be viewed at the links below. ABA KNP Media Release 24-Nov-2015 Letter to the… Continue reading
