* About 6000 wild brumbies roam the Kosciuszko National Park
* Radical options are being looked at to stop the brumby numbers from increasing
* Ground shooting, helicopter mustering and sterilisation are being considered
* Radical options are being looked at to stop the brumby numbers from increasing
* Ground shooting, helicopter mustering and sterilisation are being considered
Almost 6,000 wild brumbies living in the Snowy Mountains to be killed under controversial NSW scheme to save Mount Kosciuszko National Park
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In the past five years, 2043 wild Brumbie horses have been removed from the park. Homes were found for 567 of them while the rest of them were trucked to local slaughter yards.
-> The animals will be shot, trapped, or subjected to fertility control measures. Culling is set to continue over the next two decades until the population has dwindled to 600, and these horses will be kept within three low-impact areas within the alpine park.
The details of the proposal have been released in the Kosciuszko Draft Wild Horse Management Plan 2016 which was placed on public exhibition on Sunday.
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) says horses are damaging to the natural structures of the national park, such as riverbeds, streams, natural bogs, wetlands and soil structure, as they trample the ground when they feed or look for water.
The details of the proposal have been released in the Kosciuszko Draft Wild Horse Management Plan 2016 which was placed on public exhibition on Sunday.
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) says horses are damaging to the natural structures of the national park, such as riverbeds, streams, natural bogs, wetlands and soil structure, as they trample the ground when they feed or look for water.
- These horses are amazing animals and it is not right to shoot them all just because they cause a bit of damage. Brumbie horses are one of the last wild horses left on earth. They have been in Australia for as long as the white Australians. Seven of the horses survived the harrowing journey 'down under' on the First Fleet in 1788 and scince then they have thrived.
HELP SAVE THE WILD BRUMBIE HORSES OF THE SNOWY MONTAINS AND SIGN THE PETITION BY CLICKING THE LINK !!
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