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Alex Mitchell

Brumby's days numbered after shift in alpine regions

Protections have been removed for feral horse populations in Australia's alpine region. (Perry Duffin/AAP PHOTOS)

Distraught advocates say Australia's entire brumby population is doomed after lawmakers erased heritage protections in a famed alpine park.

A late-night parliamentary sitting scrapped laws introduced by the NSW Nationals in 2018 that protected the "heritage value" of the brumby population within Kosciuszko National Park.

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