Where THE

Historic icon, convenient resource or environmental

vandal – brumbies are both revered and reviled

across our continent.

STORY BY A M A NDA BUR DON

PHOTOGR A PH Y BY JASON EDWA R DS

WILD

HOR SES are

Beauty is in the eye of the

beholder when it comes

to Australia’s wild horse

population. Horses arrived

in Australia with the first

European settlers, and their

feral descendants now

number at least 1 million.