Labor Government must stop lethal management and removing Brumbies from National Parks
The issue
Australians are strenuously opposed to Brumbies being shot whether by aerial or ground shooting and being removed from National Parks, more so during foaling season when a foal can be separated from its mother either alone in a trapyard or outside a trapyard, crushed in a trapyard.
Gallery of Photos of Brumbies shot by National Parks and Wildlife Services
Brumbies hold significant cultural and social value for Australians. Today’s wild-living Brumbies are bloodline descendants of War horsea, and have featured in books and film. Who hasn’t read The Silver Brumby or The Man From Snowy River or seen the film? Many have relatives who were members of the mounted forces th e Light Horsemen.
The Australian wild living horse, the Brumby has become Iconic and recognized internationally in films and books, with many statues and commemorations erected in their honour in Australia
Australian Brumbies supported soldiers in the Boer War and World War 1. Australia's Light Horsemen are legendary, a part of our Commonwealth War Effort, and 'Bill the Bastard' was “one of the bravest steeds”. Brumbies living in the Bogong High Plains have been tested and recognized as having Waler DNA, the same as their forebear the brave War horses who supported our soldiers at Beersheba. 136,000 horses, many Brumbies were mustered and trapped from the Great Alpine Park, and stations and followed Australian soldiers to war. Only one returned to Australia.Link to Anzac.org.au and 88 entries about Light Horsemen and War Horses
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/search/content?keys=War%20Horses
Despite there being significant constituent demand for an end to shooting wild-living Brumbies, including from indigenous Australians, State Governments in both New South Wales, Victoria and Canberra, continue to engage in barbaric and cruel shooting sprees of wild living Brumbies fuelled by rhetoric from extremist environmentalists, based upon “inconclusive” or any evidence that Brumbies harm the environment and native wildlife they have evolved with, symbiotically, for nearly two centuries.
Snowy Hydro 2 plays a significant role in Brumbies being shot as part of a biodiversity recovery project, many thousands of Brumbies crucified by being aerially shot because Snowy Hydro 2 trashed the environment and killed many thousands of endangered species. Brumbies have become a token for climate change credits.
Shooting sprees, of Brumbies are grossly cruel leaving many Brumbies with non-lethal single shots to the gut, neck and other parts of the body, dying in a cruel and barbaric manner and often times left to predators. Aborted foals will be vittims to wild pigs, dingoes and foxes.
We must find ways to respectfully conserve surviving wild-living mobs of Brumbies, failing which we tear down not only innocent sentient creatures but the connection our Light Horsemen had with Brumbies
Brumby Action Group recently put forward a proposal to the Minister for Environment that a Conservation Refuge be created for surviving Brumbies, one in the north and the other in the south. We have yet to have a reply.
As to the alleged flawed population numbers they are biolgically impossible, are thrown around like confetti, as if it is evidence of "damage", but where is the evidence? Cherry picked reports about one species with a vague waft of inconclusive Brumby reference.
There has never been a brumby impact statement prepared by the government about Brumbies, there is no real evidence that Brumbies cause ANY damage. Yet there is literally a mounting library of evidence of harm to the Park, caused by infrastructure, Hydro 2, damage caused by deforestation, accidental spillages, carcass left to rot in waterways, the Park is overrun with blackberries, all manner of weeds and with removal of Brumbies, undergrowth will be booming, and fires.
We demand an immediate end to shooting brumbies, ground or aerial, and removal of any Brumbies in Kosci National Park, Ideallyj, we demand an investigation into the connections between Invasive Species Council and the decisions made by the NSW Government and its Ministers.
Brumbies are part of our cultural and social history. You have no right to do what you are doing.
If you live overseas, please share this Petition for your family and friends and wild horse groups, and if you live in Australia please continue to share with your Brumby Groups.
MATAGI photo by David of Brumby Trails
Photo Credit: Paul McIver
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The issue
Australians are strenuously opposed to Brumbies being shot whether by aerial or ground shooting and being removed from National Parks, more so during foaling season when a foal can be separated from its mother either alone in a trapyard or outside a trapyard, crushed in a trapyard.
Gallery of Photos of Brumbies shot by National Parks and Wildlife Services
Brumbies hold significant cultural and social value for Australians. Today’s wild-living Brumbies are bloodline descendants of War horsea, and have featured in books and film. Who hasn’t read The Silver Brumby or The Man From Snowy River or seen the film? Many have relatives who were members of the mounted forces th e Light Horsemen.
The Australian wild living horse, the Brumby has become Iconic and recognized internationally in films and books, with many statues and commemorations erected in their honour in Australia
Australian Brumbies supported soldiers in the Boer War and World War 1. Australia's Light Horsemen are legendary, a part of our Commonwealth War Effort, and 'Bill the Bastard' was “one of the bravest steeds”. Brumbies living in the Bogong High Plains have been tested and recognized as having Waler DNA, the same as their forebear the brave War horses who supported our soldiers at Beersheba. 136,000 horses, many Brumbies were mustered and trapped from the Great Alpine Park, and stations and followed Australian soldiers to war. Only one returned to Australia.Link to Anzac.org.au and 88 entries about Light Horsemen and War Horses
https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/search/content?keys=War%20Horses
Despite there being significant constituent demand for an end to shooting wild-living Brumbies, including from indigenous Australians, State Governments in both New South Wales, Victoria and Canberra, continue to engage in barbaric and cruel shooting sprees of wild living Brumbies fuelled by rhetoric from extremist environmentalists, based upon “inconclusive” or any evidence that Brumbies harm the environment and native wildlife they have evolved with, symbiotically, for nearly two centuries.
Snowy Hydro 2 plays a significant role in Brumbies being shot as part of a biodiversity recovery project, many thousands of Brumbies crucified by being aerially shot because Snowy Hydro 2 trashed the environment and killed many thousands of endangered species. Brumbies have become a token for climate change credits.
Shooting sprees, of Brumbies are grossly cruel leaving many Brumbies with non-lethal single shots to the gut, neck and other parts of the body, dying in a cruel and barbaric manner and often times left to predators. Aborted foals will be vittims to wild pigs, dingoes and foxes.
We must find ways to respectfully conserve surviving wild-living mobs of Brumbies, failing which we tear down not only innocent sentient creatures but the connection our Light Horsemen had with Brumbies
Brumby Action Group recently put forward a proposal to the Minister for Environment that a Conservation Refuge be created for surviving Brumbies, one in the north and the other in the south. We have yet to have a reply.
As to the alleged flawed population numbers they are biolgically impossible, are thrown around like confetti, as if it is evidence of "damage", but where is the evidence? Cherry picked reports about one species with a vague waft of inconclusive Brumby reference.
There has never been a brumby impact statement prepared by the government about Brumbies, there is no real evidence that Brumbies cause ANY damage. Yet there is literally a mounting library of evidence of harm to the Park, caused by infrastructure, Hydro 2, damage caused by deforestation, accidental spillages, carcass left to rot in waterways, the Park is overrun with blackberries, all manner of weeds and with removal of Brumbies, undergrowth will be booming, and fires.
We demand an immediate end to shooting brumbies, ground or aerial, and removal of any Brumbies in Kosci National Park, Ideallyj, we demand an investigation into the connections between Invasive Species Council and the decisions made by the NSW Government and its Ministers.
Brumbies are part of our cultural and social history. You have no right to do what you are doing.
If you live overseas, please share this Petition for your family and friends and wild horse groups, and if you live in Australia please continue to share with your Brumby Groups.
MATAGI photo by David of Brumby Trails
Photo Credit: Paul McIver
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Petition created on 26 August 2019