Battle over high-country brumbies about to heat up

By Peter Hannam
Updated June 11 2017 - 12:13pm, first published 12:45am
Brumbies in the hogh grasslands near Kiandra in the Snowy Mountains. A management plan to remove up to 90% of the feral horses in the National Park has been withdrawn due to community support for the animals and political efhowever the horses will continue to damage the delicate region if a viable plan to lower numbers is not found.
Pic Nick Moir 7 june 2017
Brumbies in the hogh grasslands near Kiandra in the Snowy Mountains. A management plan to remove up to 90% of the feral horses in the National Park has been withdrawn due to community support for the animals and political efhowever the horses will continue to damage the delicate region if a viable plan to lower numbers is not found. Pic Nick Moir 7 june 2017

A long-simmering dispute over brumbies in the Kosciusko National Park is set to heat up with the Berejiklian government ready to ditch a plan to reintroduce shooting to control feral numbers, a local advocate of the wild horses has said.

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