About 800 Brumbies at home in forest in the Sunshine Coast hinterland will likely end up in abottoirs or getting culled.
As they graze along roadsides they pose a risk to themselves and to motorists. There have been accidents, luckily without human injuries.
A not-for-profit group, the South East Qld. Brumby Association is working with Forestry Plantation Qld. to humanely address the situation before it gets worse.
They capture them and try to find homes for them - just over 20 so far. The heard grows by about 15% a year.
The president of the association, Terry Wilson, talked to Noosa Community Radio.
Comments
In an open system failed programs are worse than useless
With all due respect, any method of hunting which takes out these most useful to the pack first is demographically counterproductive. It will turn the herd into a youth gang procreating like apes on oil and lacking the sensitivity to evolve habits of avoiding risks. What if some of these traffic accidents actually are suicide attacks?