Search On for Person Who Slaughtered 100 Australian Brumbies

This is a senseless slaughter of horses:

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UP to 100 brumbies have shot by a gunman, some at close range, over the past 18-months in a state forest in southern New South Wales.

Police and Forests NSW are appealing for public help to find the person, or persons responsible for the shootings after discovering another 10 brumbies slaughtered in the Maragle and Bago State Forests near Tumbarumba.

Six of the horses were shot within 50 metres of each other with what appeared to be a high-powered rifle.

Forests NSW feral animal control officer Mark Goldspink found the animals after being alerted to their deaths by a member of the public.

He said it was an appalling, heart-breaking slaughter of horses that were well known to people in the area.

“One of the horses shot appears to be a domestic palomino mare, who had escaped from a property and joined the brumbies,” he said. “She has been brutally shot approximately three times – in the flank, ribs and neck.”  [News.com]

For those that don’t know brumbies are the Australian version of a mustang.  They are wild horses that live mostly in the Australian Alps of southern New South Wales and northern Victoria.  These wild horses were made famous by the books and later movies of The Man From Snowy River.