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Kath Massey reports from the Hunter Valley

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ABA is excited to announce it has joined forces with the Australian Trail Horse Riders Association, Cavallo Australia and American counterparts to hold the Biggest Trail Ride in June this year.   The ride is aimed at highlighting the plight of wild horses and moneys raised will benefit ABA Member Groups and equivalent Mustang organisations in the United States.

The ride will...

The April 2011 issue of Country Style magazine has a lovely spread on our member group the Coffin Bay Brumby Presevation Society.   The story was written by Virginia Imhoff, a new member of the Australian Brumby Horse Register who has just registered her two lovely Victorian Brumby Association brumbies.  Seems like a...

So often we hear about the negative effects of horses on the environment but in Scotland, Exmoor and Italy wild horses have been specifically singled out as being green. 

In Scotland, rare Konic breed horses, originally from Polland, have been transported from a sanctuary in Holland to help control excessive vegetation in a marshland wildlife reserve.  For more on the story:...

Following an article on the Courier Mail (1 April 2011), ABA President Jill Pickering wrote to the Qld Minister for Environment and Resource Management Kate Jones to voice "extreme concern that the Qld Government continues to rely on aerial...

Brumbies are being unlawfully released at times during the passive trapping program run by Park Staff in accordance with their management plan for excess Brumbies. These unlawful release actions are sadly putting our brumbies very existence at risk. Brumby numbers are increasing at around 10% or more depending on availability of feed. In time, like any species, excessive numbers cannot be...