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NSW's no-cull brumby bill will consign feral horses to an even crueller fate

  • Written by Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
NSW's no-cull brumby bill will consign feral horses to an even crueller fateResearch suggests there is no "safe number" of brumbies that will avoid harm to mountain ecosystems.Jimmyvanderwall/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

New South Wales’ proposed brumby legislation – which abandons plans to cull feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park – is a dangerously reckless policy that will escalate environmental...