GOT TO LOVE OUR BRUMBIES!

So good to see Australians working together to stop the cull.

Get loud. Get together. Build communities.

Thank you to Michelle and Ian at Snowy Mountain Brumby Adventures for the beautiful photos.

The numbers

According to NSW Government figures, 10,012 wild horses were removed from Kosciuszko National Park between November 2021 and 30 June 2026. Of those, 6,673 were killed by aerial shooting and a further 1,156 by ground shooting. Just 1,259 were rehomed. The remainder went to a knackery or were killed by other approved methods.

Aerial shooting only became an approved control method in late 2023. It now accounts for roughly two thirds of every horse removed under the program. The legislation that specifically recognised the heritage value of these horses has been repealed. The current plan runs to a target of 3,000 horses by mid-2027.

The NSW Government's case is that the alpine environment cannot carry the herd, and researchers report early signs of recovery — less bare ground, more vegetation cover, less damage to stream banks. That case deserves to be heard and tested. What does not follow is that the only tool available is a helicopter and a rifle. Reproductive control has been under consideration. Rehoming took 1,259 horses out of more than ten thousand. Nobody has been asked to account for that ratio.

Elsewhere in NSW a separate brumby cull has been temporarily halted while the Land and Environment Court hears a legal challenge. That is what organised people do. They do not just object — they turn up, they document, they file, and they make the decision-makers show their working.

That is the whole point of this campaign. Get loud. Get together. Build communities. It works on brumbies, and it works on everything else.