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Environment
Duncan Murray

New round of culling after brumby population explodes

Feral horses are in the firing line again after a surge in numbers across NSW's alpine parkland. (Perry Duffin/AAP PHOTOS)

Brumby numbers have rebounded in the thousands despite efforts to stop large numbers of the invasive species degrading a famous alpine national park.

Latest estimates reveal there are at least 6476, and as many as 16,411, of the feral horses roaming NSW's Kosciuszko National Park, near the Victorian border.

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