The Snowy Monaro is now home to one of the state’s best equipped and most impressive emergency hubs following the official opening of a new Rural Fire Service facility in Cooma.
The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected an urgent injunction from pro-Brumby advocates, who are calling on the state government to stop its aerial culling of Snowy Mountains Brumbies.
The confirmed presence of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu), recently detected in mainland Australia for the first time, has put Snowy Monaro backyard poultry keepers on alert.
Brumby advocates are continuing to call on the NSW Government to halt its aerial culling operations and put more efforts into using re-homers to reduce the numbers of Brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park.
