The number of wild horses living in Australia's high country has more than doubled in five years, raising new suggestions they must be culled.
Brumbies are culled in both Victoria and the ACT, but last year were controversially handed a level of legal protection through the NSW Government's so-called 'Brumby Bill'.
ACT Environment Minister Mick Gentleman said the horses did not need to be totally eradicated, but it was clear there should be far fewer living in the Australian Alps."But you really need to manage the numbers so they don't do the degradation we're seeing in Kosciuszko National Park." Between 2014 and 2019, numbers in that area lifted from an estimated 3,255 to 15,687 — a growth rate that could see horse numbers double nearly every two years.
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