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FOUND: New ways to count brumbies as thousands shot from air | Mind Blowing Facts

Observers will take to the air to count, rather than shoot, brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park. (Perry Duffin/AAP PHOTOS)

Heat-sensing cameras could be used to better track brumby numbers in a national park where feral horses are shot from a helicopter at a rate of dozens per day, an inquiry into the practice has been told.

NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said observers would take to the air to count, rather than shoot, brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park in late October. 

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