- 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.
more recently...
- the placement of record numbers of horses from musters
- getting home checks made mandatory by ALL organisations placing horses from the musters.
- reducing the number of Kaimanawa welfare cases.
- arranging new placement for small and large numbers of horses from private properties, all over the country.
- setting up a sponsorship scheme for Kaimanawa horses
The Kaimanawa Wild Horse Welfare Trust Inc. was formed by a group of Kaimanawa horse enthusiasts who are dedicated to the welfare and wellbeing of Kaimanawa horses in the wild and in captivity.
This group consists of founding members who have an indepth understanding and a wealth of "hands on" experience; dealing with Kaimanawa horses. The knowledge brought together here is represented by a group of people with a long association and genuine passion for the unique qualities of Kaimanawa Wild Horses.
