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 resulted in the slaughter of over 7,000 horse.
“These unique and historically significant wild horses are deeply important to so many everyday Australians, and this was reflected in the 2018 Act after broad and genuine consultation” said Mrs Alberts. “Yet following the biggest slaughter of horses since WW1 over the last 2 years they are now facing the risk of extinction”.
The ABA has pointed out that petitions tabled in NSW Parliament by Belinda Williams on 27 March 2025 show Australians do NOT support the Invasive Species Council’s vendetta against the brumbies, nor the NSW Government’s support for this vendetta.
These showed that:
• 212,815 Australians wanted to stop shooting Australia’s Heritage brumbies and
• 94% of formal submissions to the Inquiry into Aerial Culling of Brumbies were against aerial culling.
“The ABA sees this current push by the ISC as a betrayal of our heritage. These horses carry the same bloodlines as the light horses that played such an important role in WW1 and other battles, and they have been respected as part of our cultural and historical fabric. They have co-existed with native species on the lower slopes of the mountains for 200 years” Mrs Alberts said.
“If any change is made to the current Act it would also be removing lethal control methods from management practices. Now the numbers have been brought down to a low and sustainable level, management should be through trapping and rehoming, which is the only humane approach, if they need to be removed at all”.
For further information contact Nikki Alberts on 0434 493 090.
