As hundreds of wild horses are shot from the air in Kosciuszko National Park, brumbies further north are experiencing the 'cushy' perks of domestic life.
Whether she's prompting the more than 500-kilogram animal to lie down or waiting for the mare to be still enough to stand on her back, the bond between the teenager and her horses is undeniable.But her herd of four aren't regular domestic horses, they were once wild brumbies.Her mum Kylie Wild said, while Ruby was supervised, her young daughter had a natural intuition with horses.
Horse trainer Anna Uhrig runs a brumby rehoming camp in south-east Queensland, using horses trapped in local forests and from central Queensland."It's a very small part of the puzzle: the amount of horses we rehome. It's not thousands but I think the work adds quality of life to those horses."For most of the past decade, he has managed the brumby herds of Tuan and Toolara state forests, which consist of pine plantations and native species north of Noosa.
"It's the perfect place to come. Anna is amazing and just knows the process and talks and walks you through every step.""In terms of the whole management debate, it's not a closed book. We don't have the answers necessarily," Ms Uhrig said. Under the state government management plan, more than 15,000 brumbies could be killed or rehomed to reduce the population to 3,000 by mid-2027, to the despair of some of the locals.
In the past three years more than 130 have been captured and rehomed under the state government's Biosecurity Act."Previously, there have been probably far harsher approaches to wild horse management, and that's not what the community wanted," said Louise Orr of North Coast Local Land Services.After just seven days at brumby camp, some of the horses are almost unrecognisable for participants, including Melissa Teunis.
Project Brumby Dr Dave Berman Horses Pets Culling Feral Animal Management Rehoming Brumby Kosciuszko
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