Arabic version: تعليق إعدام خيول البرومبي في يورايغير بانتظار قرار المحكمة

According to ABC News, aerial culling of wild horses in Yuraygir National Park is on pause while the Land and Environment Court considers a challenge brought by brumby advocate Carmen Jackson. Justice Rachel Pepper is due to hand down a decision before October 30.

Ms Jackson filed an injunction last month seeking to stop the National Parks and Wildlife Service from conducting aerial culling between August 26 and 28. At the final hearing on Wednesday, she argued that staff intended to carry out the program lacked statutory authority, saying one officer’s approval had been signed in early September, after the planned cull.

She also told the court that the park management plan referred to the horses’ “removal”, rather than shooting or culling. Ms Jackson said the plan in force at the time did not contain language on aerial culling. The court heard that the most up-to-date pest management plan for Yuraygir was updated on September 4, 2026, and supplied to Ms Jackson as evidence.

Alex Graham, representing the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s deputy secretary, said the management plans also discussed eradication of feral horses and that the terminology was broad. He said the NPWS Act and Biosecurity Act gave the NPWS secretary “broad general authority” to manage feral horses in national parks, arguing the documents did not exclude killing horses. Justice Pepper noted that authority to remove a person from a courtroom would not necessarily provide authority to shoot that person. Aerial culling was reintroduced by the NSW government in 2023 after a 23-year blanket ban.