Paul Johnston and Moreen Levin with two foals born from mares rehomed from Kosciuszko National Park at their property in Thangool, where they run Clearview Brumby Rescue. Video by Ellouise Bailey.
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00:00 I'm Maureen and I run Cleverview Brumby Rescue with Paul, my husband, and we have here,
00:06 Falkor, he's a 30 year old Brumby Stallion that's only been out of the Cosasca National Park
00:11 since the 31st of the 5th month last year and Monty who has been out of the park for coming
00:19 on to eight months and he's a five year old. They've both been gelded now, both have homes to go to.
00:27 When we bring the horses here we pay, transport them from
00:35 Blowering in New South Wales up here to Queensland. The horses are trapped in the Cosasca National Park
00:40 by the National Parks themselves, we do not go and trap them. They're transported up here
00:48 as a two-day trip, they are overnighted in Gwendoowindy where they have feed, water, rest and everything
00:54 like that. Then they're brought here unloaded and then we continue them with getting them
01:00 vetted, all their checking, feeding them. All this comes out of our pocket. The horses themselves
01:10 when we rehome them they are gelded, branded and microchipped. If you can see here on Falkor
01:16 he has our registered brand and the K is a K to give him a lifetime traceability of being a genuine
01:23 Kosciuszko Brumby which is really really important for us to make sure that these horses have a
01:28 lifetime traceability of where they came from and their origination and their genetical background.
01:33 The genetics of these horses is dating, it's been proven to date back to pre-Australian white
01:41 settlement and some of the breeds that have come, some of the bloodlines coming out in these genetics
01:47 is extinct breeds of horses that no longer can we get in order to help with our genetic basis for
01:56 the equine industry of today that has been deficient with lion breeding. These horses,
02:03 their temperaments, you just can't buy them anymore. They're just absolutely amazing and
02:07 as you can see by Falkor being over 30 years old even though he's had very little handling
02:14 whatsoever he is happy to stand here with us now. You know he's no longer scared or terrified,
02:21 he's comfortable with the fact that we're in his yard and there is absolutely zero aggression
02:27 in these horses. We've had over 400 horses here and we've had probably 70% of those have been
02:36 herd stallions anywhere from you know five to 30 years of age and I've never had one dangerous one
02:44 in the whole lot that we've had here. We've got 10 year old herd stallions that are
02:50 trick riding with kids and we've got 14 year old stallions that are going out now and doing pony
02:57 club jumping with children. They are just absolutely amazing, we just we just can't be
03:03 more prouder of them and we really hope the equine industry takes a hold of this and
03:07 support us. We're trying to save as many as we can.