Discovery of about 500 skeletal equine remains, many of which are allegedly brumbies at a property in Wagga Wagga owned by a person previously allegedly connected with receiving brumbies from National Parks and Wildlife services in questionable circumstances, has led to a call for an investigation into National Parks and Wildlife Services dispatching brumbies to the rehomer/knackery.
Approved rehomers undergo a rigorous approval process and many have been refused the opportunity to rehome, when they believe they were satisfying requirements.
How National Parks and Wildlife Services have been sending Brumbies to a "rehomer" removed as a rehomer by National Parks and Wildlife Services is a very important question to be addressed.
Brumby Advocates are also calling for a Parliamentary Inquiry into both NPWS management procedures generally, and the refusal by Penny Sharpe MP to undertake a count of brumbies in retention zones where 3,000 brumbies must be retained or to declare how many brumbies can live in each zone to total 3,000
There has never been a count of Brumbies in retention zones, so how Penny Sharpe has issued orders for aerial shooting to take place in retention zones, where Brumbies are protected by Legislation is highly questionable.
Is this move an attempt to defeat Legislation that recognises the Heritage value and protects that value?
There are also calls for an investigation into the interference by the Invasive Species Council into the operation and decision making of the Department which falls into Ms Penny Sharpe's portfolio of management.
The collection of hand written raw data by members of Invasive Species Council in supermarkets and in the streeta to be included as a vote in favour of aerial shooting must also be investigated.
Voting was to take place via an especially created platform on the website of National Parks and Wildlife Services, Yet ISC collected data on pieces of paper in supermarkets, in the street and other places, to then allegedly enter the data into their own face book page and then submitt numbers to National Parks and Wildlife Services.
Given the seriousness of the variation of the management plan to include aerial shooting, advocates call for an immediate investigation into this anomoly and that the platform be reoperned for a revote with votes logged only via the National Parks and Wildlife Services website.
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