The NSW government’s planned culling of the Snowy Mountains Brumbies is meeting stern resistance.
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The Snowy Mountains Users Group are chartering coaches to travel to Sydney next Tuesday, August 2, to rally against the draft plan which will see a 90 per cent reduction of Brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park.
The proposed planned culling from 6000 to only 600, as part of the NSW Government’s Kosciuszko Draft Wild Horse Management Plan 2016. suggests shooting the wild horses as a means to decrease their impact on native flora and fauna, some of which are endangered.
A bus will leave from Young at 4am to meet other buses from Tumut, Wagga and Cooma with a march planned on State Parliament House in Macquarie Street.
The protesters will assemble at the Domain on Hospital Road before walking to Parliament House.
The march will include three actual brumbies who will join the walkers in presenting a letter to Premier Mike Baird requesting a “stay of execution and clemency.’
One of the organisers, Deanne Kennedy believes without assistance and support from the community, the Brumbies will be helpless.
“The Brumbies need a strong showing of numbers to support their case for survival,” Deanne said.
“To do nothing will surely condemn them to death by gunfire.
“We are asking the community to help us help them,” she said.
The brumbies, have roamed Kosciuszko National Park for more than 150 years, but as they are an introduced animal, they are seen as feral.
The draft plan is not limited to ground shooting with other options also put forward.
They included:
- trap and remove for domestication or transport to knackery or abattoir;
- trap and cull on site;
- aerial and/or ground muster, yard and remove from park for domestication or transport to knackery or abattoir;
- aerial and/or ground muster, yard and cull on site;
- fertility control.
Contact Deanne on 6382 1035 or 0427 403 603 for more information.