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The WA Government plans to cull Arab line wild horses on a pastoral lease in the Lake Gregory area of  Western Australia and truck them thousands of miles to an abaytoir for horse meat export.    While the cull has been suspended due to public outcry, ABA fears that yet again, governments are not taking responsibility for providing effective long term management...

ABA's newest member, the Kaimanawa Horse Welfare Trust has an article in  the lastest ThatHorse e-bulletin.  To find out more, click on the link below.

http://www.thathorse.com/listing/performance-horses/last-call-for-kaimanawa-applications/3587/

ABA Member Outback Heritage Horses of WA (OHHWA) has raised a number of animal welfare concerns about a proposed project to muster and drive hundreds of wild horses from WA across Australia.  

Click Here to view OHHAWA full Media Release.

Des Houghton from Brisbane's Courier Mail (30 April 2010) reports on the current aerial cull in the Carnarvon Gorge National Park.   Click Here for the full story.  Please note that the new group Save Our Brumbies is...

Brigitte Bardot, president of the French based international animal welfare organisation Foundation Brigitte Bardot has written to Qld Premier Anna Bligh to protest against aerial culling of horses and to encourage humane management practices such as fertility control.

The Foundation became aware of the culling in the Carnarvon Gorge National Park through its contact with ABA...

For pdf file of this ABA media release <click here>

For a pdf file of the Victorian Brumby Association media release <click here>

A new aerial survey of wild horse populations has been released by the Alpine National Park Liaison Committee and can be located at the site below.    The report findings indicate that the horse populations had increased by 21% since the last survey.    ABA is preparing a response.

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