We Demand a Parliamentary Inquiry into NPWS and Environment Department

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We demand a Parliamentary Inquiry into National Parks and Wildlife Services management and the Depatment.The underhanded dispatch of brumbies to slaughter yards by NPWS must be investigated in a transparent Parliamentary Inquiry, not behind closed doors.

We demand the cruel and barbaric aerial, and ground shooting stop immediatly. and a count of Brumbies using up to date methods of retention zones and a declaration about how many may live in retention zones.

For too long Minister Penny Sharpe has ignored our growing concerns over the diminishing populatin of brumbies and her barbaric slaughter of brumbies that will lead to ...

We demand a Parliamentary Inquiry into National Parks and Wildlife Services management and the Depatment.The underhanded dispatch of brumbies to slaughter yards by NPWS must be investigated in a transparent Parliamentary Inquiry, not behind closed doors.

We demand the cruel and barbaric aerial, and ground shooting stop immediatly. and a count of Brumbies using up to date methods of retention zones and a declaration about how many may live in retention zones.

For too long Minister Penny Sharpe has ignored our growing concerns over the diminishing populatin of brumbies and her barbaric slaughter of brumbies that will lead to a breach of Legislation and Heritage value of brumbies by defeating the purpose of the Legislation. For too long Invasive Species Council a non government organisation have interfered in control of the Department. We have no confidence in either NPWS or the Minister.

Enough is enough.

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Campaign by Brumby Action Group Incorporated a not for profit incofporated association the purpose of which is the preservation and conservation of wild living brumbies.

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The Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act and management plan mandates the NSW Government retain 3,000 Heritage brumbies in four retention zones in the park.

The Minister, who has control of the portfolio, Penny Sharpe, refuses to conduct a count of brumbies in retention zones and declare how many may live in each zone to total 3,000 across the zone, yet has moved forward with a decision to cruelly aerial shoot brumbies in retention zones where Brumbies are protected.

Without knowledge of how many brumbies are in the retention zones, this may in fact be a breach of the Legislation in force that protects them.

The NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into aerial shooting, has yet to deliver its recommendations, yet Penny Sharpe is moving forward with barbaric aerial shooting strenuously opposed by a majority, to take place in retention zones or other areas of the park.

Evidence given at the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into aerial shooting by an expert Vet, is that the NPWS aerial shooting is inhumane. This evidence has been ignored by Penny Sharpe along with evidence the population counts of brumbies upon which she relies are flawed. Penny Sharpe is also ignoring calls for a population count of Brumbies in retention zones using up to date methodology.

An independent count underway, funded by the Brumby Community is reporting that numbers in one particular zone are at least 41% less than the numbers relied upon by Penny Sharpe. The independent Count is using cutting edge AI technology, and final results will be available shortly and predicted already to return results that will prove numbers in retention zones are already well below 3,000 brumbies.

Recent allegations NPWS are involved in sending brumbies from KNP to at least one backyard knackery "off the books" has shocked the brumby community and Members of Parliament. Not only because a knackery death is cruel and barbaric, but this raises even more question marks about numbers that have been removed from the park "off the books" with numbers that will not have been taken into account. Brumbies were noted as having been sent to Corryong Knackery in 2023

The Invasive Species Council a non-government organization, which lobbies for cruel aerial shooting, seem to have infiltrated the bureaucracy and decision-making processes of the Environment Department They hold questionable control and power including acceptance of numbers they allegedly collected, in the final decision to aerially shoot brumbies which the Minister accepted despite the alleged signatories not having entered their signatures into the NPWS portal as required.

Numbers allegedly collected by Invasive Species Council (ISC) on paper forms allegedly in supermarkets and other street venues and then entered into the Invasive Species Council own facebook page and then entered into NPWS online portal, ought be rejected or be considered as only one submission from ISC. Minister Sharpe accepted these numbers without questions and this gross irregularity must be investigated.

On such an important variation of a management plan, to reintroduce aerial shooting after it was banned 20 years ago on grounds it is cruel, there is no room for this style of questionable activities.

I call for a Parliamentary Inquiry into National Parks and Wildlife Services, the Environment Department and activities, of Atticus Fleming who engaged in negotiations to end brumby shooting in November 2023 on an agreement that only 500 brumbies be shot.  I call for an inquiry into the way in which the management plan was varied to re-introduce aerial shooting as a management method based on the highly irregular collection method accepted by Minister Sharpe.

There must be a halt to ground or aerial shooting brumbies pending the outcome of the new Parliamentary Inquiry, a count of brumbies in retention zones using an up-to-date method acceptable to stakeholders, and a declaration about how many Brumbies may live in each retention zone that will total an overall 3,000. Any brumbies in excess of 3,000 brumbies in the park to be managed with non-lethal management by way of rehoming to approved rehomers.

This is non-negotiable.

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