Volunteers Melissa McCartin and Cameron McLeavy, from Bundalong, deliver donated hay to the stranded brumbies in Barmah National Park.
A group of volunteers has launched a rescue effort to save more than 100 brumbies, trapped in floodwater in Barmah National Park, from starving.
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The group has been delivering hay in small boats to the marooned horses 3km inside the park.
The brumbies are classified as unwanted feral animals by Parks Victoria, but the Barmah Brumby Preservation Group wants to keep the horses in the forest, and will also re-home brumbies removed from the forest.
The group is annoyed that Parks Victoria has not acted to prevent the brumbies suffering a slow death from starvation.
The group of more than 100 horses was found by the preservation group on Tuesday, November 1 on a sandhill which has no grass left on it.
On Saturday, November 5 the volunteers found dead horses and dead kangaroos on the sandhill and retrieved a dying foal. More than a tonne of hay was dropped there.
The hungry brumbies pounced on the hay delivered by boat on Saturday.
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