28/05/2025
Please sign the petition to help stop arial culling of Brumbies. I am horrified that shooting horses from the air has been a strategy from the Government. Shocking!
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/195vwHYJp7/?mibextid=wwXIfr
The full story hasn't been put out there - so here is a summary.
The Government (and the Invasive Species Council) were pushing out a message that the number of wild horses at Kosciuszko National Park had exploded – up to 21,700. Locals said that it simply wasn't true.
The Government announced that because there were so many horses in the Park, humane options like fertility control were not possible and they would have to use extreme measures like aerial shooting.
We ran an inquiry where we heard from experts that it was biologically impossible for there to have been such an explosion of numbers. Horses are pregnant for 11 months – but based on some of the data being released every horse would have had to have given birth to 7 foals in a year to reach the numbers being claimed. There was also a lot of questioning about the use of the model used to estimate the population numbers with many explaining it will grossly exaggerate the number of animals.
We also heard about the risks of shooting during foaling season, as well as the fear horses experience while being chased down and shot amongst each other.
The report that contained all this evidence was gutted by Labor and the Shooters Party who voted together as a block to silence this evidence and remove it from the report.
Meanwhile, the Government had already started their shooting spree. Now they are saying they have killed or rehomed 6,396 and there may be only 1500 left. That means there may have only been around 8000 brumbies to start with - nowhere near the 21,700 claimed.
While I do not believe that aerial shooting is ever justified - clearly the Government's justification for it was entirely invalid.
Now the same campaign groups are pushing to remove all protections so that every last horse could be killed. I suspect this is to distract the public from the data not adding up - and the lack of justification for taking actions that caused immense suffering to animals.
Sign the petition: https://www.emmahurstmp.com/petition_stop_the_slaughter_of_brumbies
We must keep fighting to stop more cruelty occurring.
