- ensuring their welfare in the wild and domesticity;
- encouraging replacement of musters with controlled / monitored contraception on Kaimanawa horses in the wild;
- establishing a support network for Kaimanawa horse owners;
- establishing and operating a breed register for domesticated Kaimanawa horses;
- encouraging that any ongoing breeding of domesticated Kaimanawa Wild Horses be kept, as far as possible within the breed;
- ensuring as far as possible, the preservation of the Kaimanawa horses' natural habitat;
- promoting Kaimanawa horses to the public at every opportunity;
- such further and other ways and means as the Welfare Trust may deem expedient.
Accomplishments
The KWHWT works in close liaison with welfare organisations to uplift and rehome abandoned or neglected Kaimanawa horses.
The Consortium (made up of the KWHWT, ILPH NZ, SPCA Wellington & Auckland, The Iwi, SAFE, Franz Weber) successfully negotiated the following:
- an independent counter to take part in the census;
- for mares and foals to be able to be re-homed together.
- the muster of the northern horses rather than the proposed shooting of them in June 2004.
- a large number of submissions from Consortium member organisations & individual members on the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Management Plan 2004 - 2009.
