Last great muster to save Australia's wild horses | 60 Minutes Australia
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- This story from 2010 explores the fight to protect Australia's wild horses, the brumbies, from being culled in national parks. In October 2023, the NSW Government allowed aerial shooting to reduce the number of wild horses, saying it is essential to protecting the threatened native wildlife and ecosystems.
WARNING: This video contains distressing vision of dead animals.
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Synopsis | The Last Muster (2010)
You may know the scene - the man from Snowy River chasing a herd of wild horses through the high country. Now, replay the action without the brumbies. It's just un-Australian, isn't it? Those magnificent creatures are under threat. There are simply too many of them. And if we can't come up with a better way to control their numbers, they'll be culled. Karl Stefanovic slipped into the saddle to join the last great muster - the plan to round up the brumbies, and hopefully, win them a reprieve.
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If I had to choose which animal is the greatest, the most beautiful, the more breathtaking… it would be the horse ❣️
An invasive species to Australia, like the cane toads.
It’s crazy how humans have created more devastation to the environment than any creature in the world and we’re so hung up on being mildly inconvenienced by other species
It's a stark truth: we must learn from nature's wisdom, exemplified by creatures like wild horses. They embody a harmony with Earth that we, as custodians, should emulate. The purported reasons for culling wild horses in America often mask deeper interests in cattle and oil industries. This irony is not lost - the same industries compromising wild horse populations are also accelerating climate change, jeopardizing our planet. It's a call to action: protect these majestic animals and our environment, learning from their unspoiled existence to coexist sustainably on our shared, sacred mother Earth
@@zen7349100%
evasive it this logic you should support the Cain toad
So well said👌🏻
Yes it's humans that created the Brumby devastation to the environment & loss of native fauna & flora. Aforementioned devastation is not something I personally need to get hung up on , if I'm happy to never go and look at it , and sit in my armchair with a book of Banjo Patterson poems on my knee.
Jack's statement at the end is 110% correct for any domesticated animal. This is an entire sector of animals was created for people by people and its our responsibility to take care of ALL of them.
I agree fuck nature and the land
100%. Brumbys are Australias horse!
They have beautiful temperaments and incredible to ride.
Save them please!
@DingoPaints if your riding them then they don't need to be in the Bush do they...you can still breed them in a paddock just don't mix their gene pool, native wildlife deserve a fair go
LEAVE EM ALONE ASS WHOLES
@@DingoPaintsThere are too many.
The Brumbies deserve Love, Respect and to be.looked after🐴🐎🐎🐴🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Interdused and damaging
@@KeiranRbullshit, damage what?, plants?, trees?, pathetic excuse, purely for profit, farmers are scumbags.
And so do our native wildlife. If the brumbies are culled a step to protect are native wildlife is taken, if not, they go extinct. I don't care for the brumbies that share the same issue as cane toads.
Very good program!!! I love the accent of these guys. I also appreciate these men working to help the brumbies, thank you for that last comment, “we brought them with so they are our responsibility.”
Ozzies have been culling feral camels, shooting them from helicopters. Then they got an idea that the Near East might want to eat them so they built slaughterhouses to accommodate the size of them. Now they're flogging them to connoisseurs of camel meat.
the patience,understanding and knowledge these men have to be able to tame these animals is simple magic
And it's ultimately innaffective in removing the invasive species from the enviroment
Here in the Southwestern US, we have faced it for too many years. Even though our federal horses are protected by the Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971 the numbers still have to be kept to the AML that was agreed upon. Darting is not enough, and they are still rounded up at gathers and adopted out. I photograph several wild herds here in the US and it's easy to get attached to the beauty and the importance of family they share with us.
What of the effect of the nicer specimens being adopted? Has the herd deteriorated?
An amazing piece of investigative journalism. I will be bringing my son when he is old enough to come down and be apart of the training that this man is providing to help with not only the brumbies but creating a bond and skill to the forgotten craft of mustering my grandfather did this in North Queensland and always wanted to experience it for myself
I live with mustangs on our ranges in Nevada in the US. Your brumbies are excellent looking - as u did this is where we found our horses for ranch work. Our pribkems here are the bureau of land management has made catching them illegal and now the federal government is shooting them.
Man.... im digging that Bucksin they keep showing! Gorgeous beast! Hope she got a home and a good spoiling!
Please do a update on these gentlemen and the brumbies
They failed. The brumby numbers are out of control. The government is now doing what it should have done over a decade ago and they're being culled to save native species and fauna from extinction.
They're no better than wild pigs. People need to base decisions on fact not their feelings.
Great story. I hope you can save them all.
Awesome endeavor! Good luck, wish I were there ! Gave me goosebumps and tears to me eyes.
Please stop poisoning and shooting these beautiful horses - they're not doing any harm and they're part of our history. Stop the culling now.
Aerial shooting .
that’s just flat out cruel
And RSPCA DOES NOTHING TO STOP THE CRUEL BSTDS
Wow.... I loved this video. I see it's from 2010 archives. Do they still do this fabulous work with Brumbies. What a magnificent breed.....any follow up.?
Exactly what I was wondering
Everyone deserves to live in this world and animals deserve this too🇦🇺👍
Nope,
I'd love to see a follow up on this
Save the Brumbies 🐎❤❤
SAVE NATIVE SPECIES - THEY MATTER MORE YOUR PRETTY ROMANTIC PICTURES
they destroy the habitat *and are not native*. They are a pest and destroy native wildlife and ecosystems.
But why do you care about horses and not the native frogs, skinks and rare orchids?
Also they have tripled in population in 7 years.
Save the coroboree frog
Thank you. I have given my entire life to having a horse farm because I was fortunate enough as a kid to have a horse that thought me. Horses, dogs, chickens, they all teach me love. Any animal wild or not.
Very similar, if not the same issue, in America. The Bureau of Lamd Management rounds up American wild mustangs in several states, multiple times a year, with helicopters. Horses are injured, foals separated from their mothers, family herds, separated, only to end up in crowded, unhealthy holding pens waiting for adoption. BLM claims it is to help the horses, when quite frankly, the horses do not need their help. The horses have survived for centuries on American plains and they appear fat and healthy.
Yup. Round up the mustang so they can put cattle and sheep on the public lands. Gotta follow the money trail. So sad how they do it.😢
The difference is that there used to be horses in America, while nothing similar to them lived in Australia until european settlers brought them.
Beautiful story
The horse trainer on that movie was Denzel Cameron..... I worked under Denzel when I was in my twenties and he became a friend... I learned a lot from him I can't even tell.... In the work he did in this movie was spectacular... I'm sure he's dead now.. he loved Australia... Didn't want to come... He also was the Trainer on "the black stallion" .... Horse trainers don't get enough credit for their magnificent work.
Wow you were so lucky to be under his
Guidance
@@Sylvia-zg6yh yes .I was... One time we drove a team of six up mules over the Los Angeles freeway on an overpass... Imagine the 12 flopping ears of 6 draft mules going over ur head ... It really is like a video in my mind... I had lots of great experiences working in Newhall,California....on Randall ranch... Home of many famous movie horses . Getting old is no fun... do what you want to do when young..I did ..
@@gaylewatkins6781 dear sister, I'm with you know at 63. My younger years were spent training horses and showing in lead and barrel racing. Boy do I miss those days. Seeing videos like this one just warned my heart. I felt like I was riding with them in the spirit of the wind . Stay well my dear friend
@@Sylvia-zg6yh we are kindred spirits. 🐎🐎
*The idea of helping the young men and the wild horses is a great idea!*
*Horses, goats, pigs, camels, rabbits, rats -- None are native to Australia. Nor are sheep and cattle or, dogs and cats*
If predators were introduced (not that I advocate such as thing) it would be the cattle and sheep that would be
decimated as well as the native species. Predators do not prey on harder to catch/kill animals when prey involving
less risk is involved. *Culls are inevitable, unless the Australian government wants all of the farmland and native*
*wildlife sanctuaries overrun by non-native species.*
They are not around anymore.
Yeah there are too many cattle and animals bred to kill for meat. It's unsustainable. Destroying the planet. How stupid.
They're definitely horsemen thts awsome a wild horse acting like a thoroughbred
Thank God for these true horseman who value these majestic horses. May God bless you all
they destroy the habitat *and are not native*. They are a pest and destroy native wildlife and ecosystems.
But why do you care about horses and not the native frogs, skinks and rare orchids?
Also they have tripled in population in 7 years.
They are not around anymore.
@@moifemmecoleur1328 how sad to learn this news but I hope they have others who have followed in their footsteps
My Auntie Kerry Jarvis was head of the whaler society I love wild horses
Pray god bless beautiful horses right people come along help good work help bring horses training help safe future Amen 🙏
The main problem we have is that there are too many stupid and greedy people on earth that's why these animals need help if we weren't in there way they would be trhiving
Absolutely top reply at LAST AN INTELLIGENT PERSON
You nailed it!!!
if they thrive in Australia they will be the cause of extinction for countless plant ,marsupial ,reptile ,amphibians and fish species .unfortunately they dont belong and should can not coexist in Australia's wild lands
You people have no idea what you are talking about, horses are not native to Australia, they were introduced by humans and they do ridiculous damage to the Australian high country. I have seen first hand the damage they cause and the impact it has on the native animals of the area. Horses are no different to Camels, Water Buffalo, Feral Pigs, Rabbits, Feral Cats, Foxes and Cane Toads, all cause terrible damage to the Australian bush, kill our native animals, destroy native creeks and river banks and compete with our native animals for habitat and food.
@@BigRedsCrib thats what i said
8:49 Taming a horse by useing the American " Monty Roberts" join up method.
This is what Australia should be, one with nature, in loving harmony.
Not just Australia but all over the planet...
Can Australians stop eating animals ??
@@dhirenboken288 we can but that doesn't mean we should
@@user-zw6is6ng4r
Did you know that in ancient Bhārata (India), a person who consumed ANY type of animal was known as a “Chandāla” (dog-eater) and was not even included in mainstream society, but was an outcast?🥩
@@user-zw6is6ng4rshould and have to if you care about mass extinction events, deforestation, pandemics, antibiotic resistance, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, animal abuse etc etc
Eine tolle Idee, Danke,❤dass Sie sich der wunderschönen Wilden Pferden annehmen👍
This is blasphemy why can't they leave the horses alone 🤬🤬
Did you completely miss the part about damaging the ecosystem of our native animals and plants?
@@mkwa8870 no I didn't miss it but it is still blasphemy I mean can't they just dart the horses and move them to a different place where they are not a threat to the environment instead of killing them
Shooting from helicopters is beyond cruel. Be ashamed.
I realize this was back in 2010..but its still a award winning report in my opinion....I d like to think ,when i can make from the states to Australia- there will still be wild brumbies run on open ranges...These gentlemen are my heroes...
THEY ARE NOT WILD - they destroy the habitat *and are not native*. They are a pest and destroy native wildlife and ecosystems.
But why do you care about horses and not the native frogs, skinks and rare orchids?
Also they have tripled in population in 7 years.
This should be done every year, like the Chincoteague Island Pony Swim every year to keep the numbers in check. Brumbies then given to training and adoption centres.
Thank you
Wonderful! Amazing! So so beautiful!!❤
This is probably ahpenning in many countries
Yeh it’s happening in America with the mustangs 😥😥
@@hazelduerdoth4333 yea, it's one of the reasons for my comment
Some really nice horses, dang!!!
As watching heart goes out amazing horses god said multiply as sent out god gave them hooves prayers go out them keep up good job to all underwing of god heart amazing horses
Love our heritage brumbies,they must be saved at all cost,we are dealing with a lunatic green left,who know nothing about our heritage horses.
There are so many options, better safer humane, ALLOW people that want to adopt and care for these beautiful deserving horses to be allowed the chance to. Get them! Put a process where certain horses can be get anti pregnent injection or Something? Im not a vet but there are so many more humane options, that need to be considered and implemented now ! 🐴🐎🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
#saveourbrumbys
Awesome !!!!!!❤❤
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Leave the brumbies in peace.
They're so beautiful and sentient.
I love these cowboys helping them! ❤
Leave them alone. Enough land. Humans are egoistic.
Our planet is a wonderful place we are supposed to look after it not destroy it
With all respect to Australians and their history of having work animals as part of their past. Why this day in age do you still let thousand of camels and horses destroy this unique habitat on earth. Remove the camels, sell them or their meat to the middle east. Find homes for the horses here or abroad. The Australian fauna deserves Australian animals. Same goes for wild cats, as someone who loves cats I think they belong in backgarden not the bush.
Sixty minutes did a article on old Jeff guest it was called the ringer story about petford in far north Queensland it's a good yarn
What a awesome idea
Saludos desde Argentina, me encantaria poder ayudarles, amo a los caballos.
Suena muy mal que un humano que piensa y razona, actue como un animal .
Fuerzaaa vaquero Aussie y vivan los Brumbies❤
Establish a specific reserve for the iconic brumby horses. This is clearly the best way to preserve and protect theses wild and beautiful horses. The Americans do it so why can’t our government?
HOW OLD IS THIS VIDEO THEY SHOULD PUT A OTHER ONE ON ABOUT SAVING OUR BEAUTIFUL HORSES. 😭😭😭😭😭
they destroy the habitat *and are not native*. They are a pest and destroy native wildlife and ecosystems.
But why do you care about horses and not the native frogs, skinks and rare orchids?
Also they have tripled in population in 7 years.
As Jack said discussing & as for nation parks & Wildlife & forestry , Ive met some that a 10 year old has more common sense.
I wonder if we might see horse meat on the market eventually? A bit like roo meat, if they're required to be culled due to over-population and starvation anyway, it would be a far more responsibly sourced meat than cow. I bet horse would be a lean meat too.
They remind me of America's grate mustang..
Have you blokes ever heard of Jeff guest we were doing that 30 years ago up here it was good when it was going
Australia this 🇨🇦 is ashamed of your government .. to cruelly mame horses and leave them to die slowly in 2024
is unimaginable !!!
❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤ride❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤
They must have that trust in their genes.
There is a place in Washington state by a town call central they by big work horses at auctions then they quarantine them send them countries like France they slaughter them it is horrible
There's kill buyers everywhere. And the wild horses and burros will both go through the kill pen pipelines. They have them in Oklahoma and Louisiana as well. They don't give a sh*t if a mare ir Jenny births a baby in the pens, they will still sell them for meat if a rescue or such cannot make their bail, it happens ALL the time. Wild or not. It's a sad thing.
Great story. Well done.
It's bloody cruel. These arssoles wouldn't like it, if someone invaded there home n take them hostage ?.
The Wild Brumby Horses from Australia.
🏀🏉🐴🇦🇺🥤🌳🏜️🌠💎🎶🛻
They should have tried to save them in Washington state they rounded them up sent them to the glue factory
They aren’t wild horses, they are feral. Much like the ones in the United States. They aren’t native to the land and if the land cannot support them they will not have proper places to graze. We have to round our “ wild horses” in North Dakota too and we auction them off. They are almost always nice horses with some training and a good home. We can’t have them starving and causing problems. They can effect the health of other grazing animals too that are native to the land. I don’t like anything being killed it certainly isn’t their fault, but I do think something should be done to keep numbers in check
Spain brought cattle to America, so you see, they aren't native either.
Auctions sell to kill buyer's and they ship to Canada or get dumped along the way towards Mexico no longer looking like the horse rounded up.
Gelding would reduce population after rounding up as we do with other species. Passing off to rescues is another so they can be productive to society.
The cycle we have fallen back on fails to stop the problem.
Horses were wild before people domesticated them...
@@nickbillingsley280 and dogs were wolves before ppl domesticated and bred them. Horses weren’t wild in Australia is the point, but if you like the idea of them getting over populated, starving to death, diseased and ruining land for other grazing animals and farmers then I guess we have different out looks on the world.
Had to scroll way too far to reach a sane point of view. They're not native and just like feral deer, they're damaging the native plants and soil.
@@jeffreypigeon I’m a horse lover, I’ve had them my whole life and have 4 in my pasture now, but I’m the first to admit that the numbers have to be controlled. Back yard breeders and rescuing everything isn’t good for the horse market and hay is hard to find some years for ppl that don’t farm
American BLM Project for wild mustangs and the Ponies of Chincoteague in the Assateague Islands in Virginia and Maryland USA. Catching and adoption. Also some contraception plans.
Predators should control the grass eaters.
They killed them and working on the different go. Soon it will be a sterile cleared and killed off land. They are working on it.
Mate pls don't kill the horses alright*
If the feral horse comes on to your land can the land owner legally catch the horse and sell it to someone who would like it
Doesn't mean anything b l m took my father's and grandparents place no questions no answer
@@blessedfire365xgf What do you mean
On the United States they kill a lot of mustangs for no reason. Wild horse roam all over America now only short few.
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Is that boy,at last,A new breed Australian kid😮😅 nice
Save the Brumbies Stop the Cruelty
Omg how can they do that???lt's inhumane,truly unsympathetic really*
Australia has a very bad name overseas about how they MURDER SENTIENT BEINGS
I have a design that might help horses.
The Man from Snowy River is dead as a Brumby.
That's the way it needs to be the only way any other way doesn't make any sense
They protect the koalas so why not the Brumbys ❤❤
I think we really take for granted natures ability to balance itself out and adapt. Take the dingo as a classic example, that is technically supposedly not a native animal to Australia, but they have been roaming free on the land for so long, far longer than any of the domestic animals that came with the Europeans. As a result, the dingo is accepted by the people but also by the land itself.
Humans are so obsessed with playing God, and they act like the land in Australia is made of paper and could blow away at a whisper. Australia's ground is just as hard as Africa's ground and look how many hooved animals they have. Australia is only home to predominantly marsupials who just happen to be soft footed, because Australia is an island and thus animal evolution has happened based on an isolation to the rest of the world. So yes, we do have very endemic native animals. But the brumbies have been roaming the Australian landscape, from the desert to the alps, since the late 1700s. Thats still a long time, but yet the landscape of all these places where brumbies roam today still appear to be healthy and in pristine condition. The areas that do suffer damage are the areas where pigs have dug up the earth especially around banks of waterways. Why is there no uproar about that, why is that not on the news???
Man you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Do some unbiased research
@@mkwa8870 Can you please elaborate and give me some substance to support this subjective opinion? Ill happily take the challenge. Is there no such thing as, "hmm, look, I don't agree, here is why..." instead of just "no you suck, I don't agree, therefore you don't know what you're talking about, blah blah." Like okay, so why don't I know what I'm talking about then? Be specific. Come on, give me something to work with. Otherwise, your attempt at insult is just superficial and based on your own agitation of clashing opinions. Give me your own "unbiased" research, finish me off if you will. I welcome you to.
Disgusting how people want to destroy these beautiful animals..
SAVE THE BRUMMBIES 🐴❤🐴
Read the description below video 👉 This 2010 story features the fight to protect brumbies in national parks from being culled. But just in October 2023, the NSW Government allowed aerial shooting to reduce the number of wild horses, saying it is essential to protecting the threatened native wildlife and ecosystems.
Yes, they destroy the habitat *and are not native*. They are a pest and destroy native wildlife and ecosystems.
But why do you care about horses and not the native frogs, skinks and rare orchids?
Also they have tripled in population in 7 years.
What I can't figure out is that they go on about some plant being at risk... why aren't they seed banking them. Killing warm blooded sentient species because of some fanatic environmentalist and chopper pilots and shooters that want the job. And the big development planned for the Snowy. Cattle. Stop the development plans in the Snowy.
It's disgusting, what they have already done in Victoria this year already. Now NSW. It is not clean kills, just open slather, many suffering horrifically for days or weeks. 🤬🤬
@@aussieauntynette6892 💔👍👍😤
I've never seen a wild horse before but why can't they train them up the be racing horses
They are already being culled.
Trapping rehoming contraception
Absolutely gorgeous gorgeous animals. I can’t believe that man would try to destroy them. Unbelievable.
I imagine that the description is correct in that there feral horses. But maintaining this wild breed as testament to to strength of thousand who settled Australia to begin with,it is easy to sit on the outside and look in thou
13 years later and the mistake we made by not culling when we had the chance, is realised.
Exactly. How's all the bleeding hearts talking about saving them. Idiots.
Err , umm, yes they did full them when they had the chance back then. Australia kills everything. I mean they kill is their answer. They are stupid and cruel. Plus the numbers are calculated under a very flawed method. It's got nothing to do with any of the step the liars state. It's about the massive developer t planned for the Snowy. Which will do more harm in a bug way. You know what Australia is .ima with development. They kill everything.!
Ya’ll’s gov’ mint has the stupid 😢
"Thou shalt not kill"....GOD
That was written for the Isralites, religion has adopted for mankind. The true god has covered the management of the land and animals. Actually the bible books of deateronamy, numbers, Leviticus and exodus have all the laws for our benefit that's were the laws same from but today in Australia they say kill everything. The country is nealy all desert. Let Australian lollies sort it out. We will be living in sterile treeles development scattering rat poison everywhere and killing ducks n good, oh and grazing cattle on the bargain desert wasteland.The new govt have Dave,opulent plans for the Snowy.
It is impossible for the brumbies to breed to the numbers they have stated. The way they count the brumbies, I mean calculate the numbers is flawed and lacks transparency. They have been there for over 200 years. The only reason is because the truth is the nsw govt have massive development plans for the region.
Typical of the country that has killed off the most animals on the planet. Tourism that is planned will do more damage than any of the so called feral animals they have running around in the Snowy. Our endangered wildlife suffer because of rat poison that can be bought over the counter. But isn't it illegal to kill endangered Australian species? Yes it Is! Australia have several Australian native marsupial rats species that are critically endangered. Yet the govt is complacent in killing them by allowing rat poison to be freely sold. It is called 'Rat Poison.' They allow this poison yet there are Marsupial rat species that are critically endangered. Are they stupid or cruel? Australia kills everything.
Live them alone they are no hurting anyone let them live there lives why do they shot they i hope yall can save them before they others get to them so sad❤😮
DON"T protect John Barilaro legacies
I do not believe the numbers are exploding.
That is awesome. Please don't kill them. Working with troubled youths seems the way forward. We'll done and thank you for sharing with me. Maybe the prison rehabilitation service could also benefit from this practice?? ❤🐎🏇
Liers a mare can only have 1 foal a year
Leave these beautiful horses alone
Best story seen on youtube