Rod Whiteway, secretary of the Monaro Acclimatisation Society, a recreational fishing and conservation group, said the Currango Creek used to be a pristine stream filled with healthy wildlife but its banks have been completely trampled in by brumbies, taking away fish habitat. Yet no one group has been as strident as the pro-brumby lobby. Its again ironic that the loudest and most dominant voices in the feral horse debate are the very ones that want the symbol of their “iconic alpine brumby” to remain in the fragile alpine regions. Australia is thought to have the largest population of wild horses in the world. In fact based on the latest bit of science that shows Aboriginal people have lived on this continent for 120,000 years, thats only 0.19% of the heritage that Aboriginal people have in relationship to this land. While this is a slow option it would be infinitely less stressful on the horses. Horses with broken legs struggling to get to water and wombats covered in mange, infected and scratching. Lynette you have conducted a scientific study on the Australian alpine feral horse mating and breeding habits? Those who had horses in Britain were considered the wealthy and entitled. That record amounts of native animals were killed by cars entering Kosciuszko National Park over this last winter snow season and that western NSW has been turned into a desert by the mismanagement of water leases. Infact there is less interbreeding in the wild than the domestic world, Research and documents should infact be truthful. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. And yes actually I do know a great deal about the animals that live in the Snowy Mountains and how they are suffering, like feral horses and Indigenous animals such as wombats and all macropods because I am actually in the field frequently myself, live here and see the utter blatant disregard for their lives daily. Before Kosciuszko National Park was established in 1967, the NSW Government removed licensed cattle grazing from the park area in 1958 because they recognised the detrimental affect grazing was having on the environment. I received all sorts of accolades for the poem from my then 2nd grade teacher, only to run directly into the ire of Sister Cletus sometime later in the day for mentioning (Winnie) The Pooh as a great piece of literary work. Furthermore, historically the brumbies were annually managed by the original settlers because they would round them up and pick some of them for work horses. A question to celebrate Robert Capa’s birthday…, Follow Lisa Hogben Photojournalist on WordPress.com. Anyone that knows horses, knows botflies and knows what leaving animals untreated for botfly larvae infestation does to the interior of a horses stomach. The point of the article is that pro-brumby lobbyists don’t actually care about the welfare of the animals and their demands for heritage status is only really a thin disguise for their possession of a colonial identity. A slow and torturous death. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Now as I have discussed, the actual percentage of “heritage” that brumbies have in the alps is approximately only 0.16% compared to Aboriginal people on this continent so this seems like a spurious claim to protect an animal that was released or abandoned by white settlers less than 200 years ago. The plan aimed to cull 90% of the brumbies over the next 20 years in order to protect fragile alpine and sub-alpine environments. Additionally, the … Credit: Alex Ellinghausen At the risk of being murdered by a lynch mob of angry Australians, who from today are unable to climb Uluru and who have the attitude that the fun police have even sadly cruelled betting on the Melbourne Cup because some animal fanatics took footage of what actually happens to racehorses, even if they win millions for their owners, I am going to talk about those very same brumbies I wrote about as a seven year old, suburban and white privileged child. And of course, as a child, whose imagination could not be lit with the idea of running free through the bush, unchecked and unregulated by adults and their rules? Colin Sinclair has been fishing in the high country since the 1960s and said he has only seen blue-green algae the area in the last five to seven years. "I love seeing the brumbies, but I do not like seeing brumbies in plague proportions like we're seeing at the moment.". You become un-Australian for exposing the sacred cow, or in this case, sacred horse, of Australian mythology. Clearly there has been a great deal written by ecologists on this topic, and it was not my intent to discuss environmental science at any depth. “Brumby runs” were still common into the 1980’s in the Snowy Mountains and many horses were often killed in the process. If you don’t believe that the “iconic brumby” should have a home amongst an extremely fragile alpine environment thus displacing rare and actual indigenous animals you are nothing but a traitor. In fact Deputy Premiere John Barilaro said that his community “took me to an election and our position was endorsed at a general election”. Barilaro added ‘that Inner Sydney proponents of repealing the bill “live in some fantasy where they believe their view and their democracy trumps the democracy of local people that actually live and breathe the mountains, their generation and their culture”. The plan aimed to cull 90% of the brumbies over the next 20 years in order to protect fragile alpine and sub-alpine environments. When native koalas or kangaroos have been culled in the past due to excessive numbers no-one has come to their defence. These horses have been there for almost 200 years like it or not and have their own heritage as a result, they are not horses that have been conveniently released recently.” and to further state that the southern part of KNP “which is some of the toughest country in the region for anything that has the misfortune to live there, it is easy to portray the struggle of any species to survive there. But what of the alpine brumbies themselves? Water NSW, the government agency responsible for river water quality, said in a statement that blue-green algae occurred wherever conditions were favourable. But many things in Barilaro's speech are questionable. The Occupation of Australia by the Naval Forces of Britain (and yes Samantha thats what they were really called) began when Captain Arthur Phillip, who was to establish a military prison and a strategic military outpost colonised the Sydney basin in 1788.

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