Sources: Down to Earth and others The US Senate recently approved $35 million for the ‘Path Forward’ initiative that critics say will wipe out America’s famed wild equines and open public lands to federally subsidized, cattle farming The move is primarily supported by the powerful American cattle and livestock lobby. This group wants to open […]
via America’s Welfare Cattle Industry could Obliterate its Wild Mustangs
An open letter from Charlotte Roe Wild Equid Partners and Friends, 1. Stopping the Path Backward: Very shortly, the Senate Appropriations Committee will consider funding a plan for the de facto extermination of wild horses and burros that the National Cattlemen’s Association and allies aim to ram through Congress. The plan would cut wild equine herd […]
via De Facto Wild Equine Extinction Plan — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
By LOUIS SAHAGUN as published on The LATimes.com “It is one of the largest killings of its kind on public land managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management…” More than 40 wild burros have been found shot and killed along the Interstate 15 near the Nevada state line, Federal officials said on Friday, and they’ve offered […]
by Debbie Coffey, V.P. & Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation Yesterday, I found out that wild horse & burro advocate, and friend, Susan Rudnicki, recently passed away. Susan will be missed as a fierce voice to save America’s wild horses & burros. I met Susan at a rally for wild horses […]
via In Memoriam: Susan Rudnicki, wild horse & burro advocate — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
by Carol Walker Director of Field Documentation for Wild Horse Freedom Federation We won our lawsuit to prevent the gruesome sterilization experiments that the BLM proposed conducting on 100 mares from the Warm Springs HMA, which is almost 500,000 acres. I, American Wild Horse Campaign, the Cloud Foundation and Animal Welfare Institute blocked the study […]
…until January 2, 2019. Happy Holidays! We wish all was well with the world’ wild animals…unfortunately not.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Wild Horse & Burro Advisory Board meeting in Salt Lake City concluded today, and once again, this Advisory Board voted to recommend that the BLM kill large numbers of wild horses & burros, and to sell other wild horses & burros without restriction (including international sales and adoptions) […]
