#brumbies

The magnificent brumbies of Australia Photography by the people of @brumby_strong on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/brumby_strong?igsh=dXAyMGt6dzk4emFl

The brumbies of Australia face the risk of being shot from helicopters despite the wild horse management plan in place protecting them. 3000 brumbies are to be retained in the park, yet not even 1000 brumbies are left. Aerial culling will again be happening in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales in June 2026. It's a barbaric method of population control that often leads to a slow and painful death for horses; Families get scattered, pregnant mares are forced to run for their lives, bellies, wombs, spines and chests pierced by bullets and the bodies are left to rot where they fell.

If you would like to help...

Send a clear message to the Environment Minister of NSW Penny Sharpe to:

🚫 STOP shooting Australia's brumbies

⚠️ RELEASE an accurate population count... AND

🚫 STOP trapping brumbies who have every right as per the management plan to live in the protected zones where trapping operations are now taking place.

I will not be apologising

Peacocks - eat native reptiles and have been known to hurt small mammals

Rabbits - ecological destruction and competition with native animals

(North I believe) Pacific sea star (the yellow and purple one) - mass over population leading to habitat destruction and lack of food/resources for natives

Feral cats - average of 3 native animals killed a night toxoplasmosis kills even more

Feral horses - habitat destruction on an mass level

okay so i’m not as educated as other people on the subject but what i’ve gathered in my time spent around Horse People (tm) is that the government is lying about the amount of wild brumbies out there, greatly exaggerating their numbers in order to excuse routine culls and inhumane traps to free up land for human development. official reports say that there are over four hundred thousand brumbies across australia but other unofficial numbers claim much, much lower numbers.

now, like i said, i’m highly uneducated on the topic, and in all honestly my gut instinct is to say brumby culls are a necessary evil if the official number of them out there has any truth to it, but all the horse people i have talked to about the topic have claimed that the actual number is extremely low, down to only 2,000 in Kosciuszko.