Ban aerial and ground shooting brumbies in Australia

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State Governments must ban aerial and ground shooting brumbies in Australia. National Parks managers are not complying with the regulator Pestsmart's best management, standard operating procedures and model codes of practice including recommendations that no trapping or culling take place in foaling season. It's time to remove the archaic cruel and inhumane practice of lethal control in preference to reliance on measured rehoming, with funding for rehomers instead of funding archaic practices of cruel aerial and ground shooting brumbies National Parks Managers must be called upon to comply with all Pestsmart Best Management Standard Operating Procedures and Model Codes of Practice and cease to take any action that will impact brumbies in foaling season.

State Governments must ban aerial and ground shooting brumbies in Australia. National Parks managers are not complying with the regulator Pestsmart's best management, standard operating procedures and model codes of practice including recommendations that no trapping or culling take place in foaling season. It's time to remove the archaic cruel and inhumane practice of lethal control in preference to reliance on measured rehoming, with funding for rehomers instead of funding archaic practices of cruel aerial and ground shooting brumbies National Parks Managers must be called upon to comply with all Pestsmart Best Management Standard Operating Procedures and Model Codes of Practice and cease to take any action that will impact brumbies in foaling season.

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Sign this letter to your Members of Parliament asking they demand the State Government to ban the archaic use of ground and aerial shooting brumbies and to ensure that National Parks Managers comply with the National Regulator's Best Management, Standard Operating Procedures and Model Codes of Practice. Photos: Paul McIver and Lesa Corrine

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It is time the archaic and outdated action of aerial and ground shooting brumbies be banned in every State of Australia, in favour of compassionate brumby management.

In 2000 aerial shooting in N.S.W. was banned following the cruel massacre of brumbies in Guy Fawkes National Park. Research has proven than 37% of brumbies will not be instantly killed, confirmed by the National Regulator Pestsmart who state that shooting from a moving platform does not guarantee a clean shot.

Brumbies will instead take multiple body shots to the wither, flank and back. Many will still not die, but will cruelly linger, some for up to a week. Stallions will attempt to protect their herds and will even challenge helicopters while mares and foals will scatter in fear and will be peppered from above from overhead shooting.

Shooting in remote isolations is a guarantee of cruelty as there is nil opportunity for follow up.

Ground shooting is no better, as mobs  flee for their lives with  many mares in foal aborting,  and dependent foals and newly born foals being crushed. If the mare is shot, the foals will slowly die of starvation.

These archaic actions that fail to comply with the National regulators Best Management, Standard Operating Procedures and Model Codes of Practice, can no longer be left in the hands of National Parks Managers. Every State Government must ban all aerial and ground shooting brumbies and shooting brumbies in trap yards, all  must be banned.

National Parks Managers fail to comply with the National Regulator who states that  trapping or culling in foaling season  should not take place due to clear animal welfare issues. Yet Parks managers, left to their own devices,  still fail to comply with the National regulator despite the clear animal welfare issues and trap and cull in foaling season with cruel outcomes.

This must not be allowed to continue, and I call upon the State Government to take charge and ensure that National Parks Managers comply with all Standard Operating procedures  Best Management, and Model Codes of Practice.

I call for a measured and compassionate approach to brumby management to include measured rehoming as necessary and with funding for rehomers instead of the hundreds of thousands of dollars being spent on archaic, cruel and inhumane aerial and ground shooting.

The loss of  brumby herds is irreversible and doesn’t consider the heritage value of brumbies to many Australians. What is happening now doesn’t consider animal welfare and is not ‘best management practice’  Unfettered removal of brumbies fails to acknowledge their heritage value. Sending brumbies to knackeries fails to acknowledge their  heritage value.

Please raise this issue for me with the Minister for Environment and Premier, and demand   the changes sought.

I demand that brumbies, extraordinary sentient beings be treated with greater respect.

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