The president of the Victorian Brumby Association, Colleen O’Brien, will
address a wild horse conference in Vienna this month.

O’Brien will talk on the evolution of brumby management in Australia at the
International Wild Equid Conference.

The conference is the first of its kind and is being held to celebrate the
successful reintroduction of the Przewalski wild horse back into the wild in
Mongolia 20 years ago.

Topics covered at the conference will relate to both wild and feral horses
from Australia, Europe, Africa and America.

The association said: “Being at this conference allows us to not only
present the current situation in Australia to the worldwide wild horse
community, but also to learn from other countries, network with similar
organisations and develop our contacts.”

The four day conference will consist of three days of intensive scientific
program including workshops. Keynote speakers include Daniel I.
Rubenstein, Princeton University (Ecological niches and strategies of the
different equid species), Joel Berger, WCS and University of Montana (Equids
within the context of landscape level conservation) and Sandra L. Olsen,
Carnegie Museum of Natural History (The cultural perspective of the human-equid
relationship).