…until January 2, 2019. Happy Holidays! We wish all was well with the world’ wild animals…unfortunately not.
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Burros
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) […]
Western Watersheds Project “The agency plans to build new fences, refurbish stock ponds, install a cattle guard, create new monitoring programs using Park Service staff, and allow trailing in a closed allotment, all at taxpayer expense…” Kanab, UT – Late last Friday, the National Park Service announced its controversial plan to allow continued livestock grazing […]
via National Park at Risk as Feds Approve Expanded Livestock Grazing — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
Thanks to each and every one of you for your many phone calls. The good news is that House and Senate members met in a formal conference committee meeting yesterday to negotiate the final version of Fiscal Year 2019 spending bills, including the Department of the Interior. This funding bill supports the Bureau of Land […]
This picture of a Sierra Nevada red fox was the first confirmed detection in Yosemite in nearly a century PHOTO BY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE “(T)hese bills go right at the key decision junctures in the act that protect species.” ~ Kieran Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity The Trump administration, of course, values […]
Source: RTF “With just three days’ notice, BLM set out in July to capture and remove 250 wild horses…” The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday ended its “emergency” bait-and-trap roundup at the Pancake Herd Management Area. BLM captured a total of 89 wild horses: 41 mares, 33 studs and 15 foals beginning on July 9, […]
via 89 Wild Horses captured, 3 DEAD at Pancake HMA in Nevada — Straight from the Horse’s Heart
Although this report came out in May, 2018, we wanted to focus more attention on burro/donkey issues worldwide, and wanted you to have an opportunity to read this. Source: Humane Society International A new investigative report released today, World Donkey Day, by Humane Society International Australia explores the current state of China’s donkey-hide gelatin (DHG or ejiao) market, an […]
