NSW deems alpine brumbies a threat to plants after passing laws to protect them

NSW environment department committee says feral horses affecting ‘a wide range of ecological communities’

New South Wales has identified alpine brumbies as a key threat to plants, months after passing laws to protect the feral horses.

The conflict emerged on Friday when the NSW environment department’s threatened species scientific committee announced that the habitat degradation and loss caused by brumbies was eligible as a “key threatening process”.

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