Australians are strenuously opposed to Brumbies being shot.

Brumbies hold significant cultural and social value for most Australians. Today’s wild-living Brumbies are bloodline descendants of War horses. 

Brumbies have featured in books and film. Who hasn’t read The Silver Brumby or The Man From Snowy River or seen the film?

The Australian wild living horse, the Brumby has become Iconic.

The Heritage and iconic value of the Australian Brumby has been recognized internationally in film 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 protection and conservation of 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.

These shooting sprees, have been nothing 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.

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 

We demand an immediate end to shooting brumbies, ground or aerial, in Kosci National Park, the Eastern Alps of Victoria, Bogong High Plains and Barmah National Park.

Brumbies are part of our cultural history

BRUMBY ACTION GROUP

Photo Credit: Paul McIver