

The draft plan, released last month, recommends reducing the park’s population of wild horses, known in Australia as brumbies, from an estimated 14,000 to about 3,000 through a combination of mostly ground-based shooting, as well as rounding up and rehoming.īut the Australian Academy of Science argues that the number of horses should be rapidly reduced below 3,000. Australian scientists call for ‘feral horse’ culls in alpine national park
