Feral horse plan advocates shooting brumbies to save Victoria's 'vulnerable' alpine region

Parks Victoria is advocating aerial shooting to control wild horse populations, when ground shooting is not feasible, to help protect the state's fragile alpine region, a draft management plan for feral horses has revealed.

The state's peak animal welfare group, the RSPCA, has given the draft plan its qualified support.

The draft plan, released last month, also rules out mustering and roping the horses and then re-homing them — a control method favoured by high country landholders.

Parks Victoria also plans to do its own trapping and will allow approved landholders to take the wild horses if they can provide a suitable home for the animals.

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Article written by: Emma Field