This is how America’s wild horses will likely be treated in Guyana. Do you think Guyana has sanctuaries where the wild horses will live after they’re used as work animals? Or, do you think they horses will end up being slaughtered? (As if this weren’t bad enough, the BLM will be sending them to an area with jaguars.)
Source: FedConnect
Categories: Wild Horses/Mustangs
Straight from the Horse's Heart 
This is illegal. They can’t send horses out of the US. This is the same than shipping them to Mexico or Canada for slaughter. It must be challenged in court.
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The Public Trust Doctrine – A Tool to Make
Federal Administrative Agencies Increase
Protection of Public Land and Its Resources
Susan D. Baer
There are approximately 727,000,000 acres of federal public land
in the United States.! Upon this land there are almost 86,000 miles
of streams containing trout, salmon and other fish, thousands of
recreational areas, wild animals including BURROS, HORSES, caribou,
bear, deer, antelope, and an immense variety of other natural resources.
One area of continuing controversy stems from the agencies’
classification decisions regarding the federal public lands that
they administer.6 For example, the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield
AcF directs the Forest Service to administer national forests for as
many uses as will achieve maximum public benefit.8 Although the
Act specifically states that the greatest revenue producing use is not
necessarily the most beneficial use,9 the Forest Service frequently
favors high revenue use over other uses due to political pressures.
https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1579&context=ealr
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BOSTON COLLEGE ENVIRONMENTAL AFFFAIRS LAW REVIEW
The Public Trust Doctrine – A Tool to Make
Federal Administrative Agencies Increase
Protection of Public Land and Its Resources
Susan D. Baer
Congress enacted the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act
in 1971 to protect “all unbranded and unclaimed horses and burros
on public lands of the United States.”58 Under the Act, the Secretary
of the Interior is “authorized and directed to protect and manage
wild free-roaming horses and burros as components of the public
lands.”59 In Kleppe v. New Mexico,60 the Supreme Court upheld the
Act’s constitutionality as a valid exercise of congressional power
under the Property Clause.61 The Court also discussed the “broad
trustee and police powers over wild animals” which states possess
but which are subordinate to the paramount power of the federal
government.62 Although originally invoked to protect the public’s
rights to conduct commerce, navigate and fish in navigable waters,
the public trust rationale has been used, at the federal level, to
include protection of public lands63 and wildlife.64
The Wild FreeRoaming Horses and Burros Act merely codifies the public trust
doctrine with regard to wild horses and burros by statutorily empowering
and requiring the Secretary of the Interior to protect these
animals for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans,
the trust beneficiaries.
60 426 U.S. 529, reh’g denied, 429 U.S. 873 (1976). New Mexico, its Livestock Board and
the purchaser of three unbranded burros sought a declaratory judgment that the Wild FreeRoaming
Horses and Burros Act was unconstitutional and also sought an injunction against
enforcement of the Act. The Board rounded up nineteen unbranded burros pursuant to New
Mexico’s Estray Law and sold them at public auction. Pursuant to the Wild Free-Roaming
Horses and Burros Act, the Secretary of the Interior demanded that the Board recover the
animals and return them to public lands. The Supreme Court held that Congress’ power over
pulilic lands under the Property Clause included the power to protect the wildlife living upon
such lands. 426 U.S. at 533-35.
https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1579&context=ealr
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In Honor of Joe Sax: A Grateful Appreciation
Holly Doremus
Berkeley Law
I cannot come close to capturing all of Professor Sax’s contributions in
this essay. Luckily I need not (and do not) construe my task that broadly.
During his lifetime there were multiple, well-deserved celebrations of
Professor Sax’s scholarship and other contributions. He squirmed to sit
through those presentations, but at the same time he did appreciate the
tangible confirmation that his colleagues admired and respected his work.
I. JOE SAX, ARCHITECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
The starting point, from my perspective at least, has to be Professor
Sax’s role as one of the founders of the field I and the other attendees of
this conference are lucky enough to work in. Frequently those seeking to
sum up Professor Sax’s career have described him as the architect of the
modem public trust doctrine. 13 It is certainly true that he brought that
doctrine to the attention of modem environmental advocates, and that he
pursued it passionately as both academic and advocate throughout his
career. But his foundational influence was much broader than that; he
brought public values to the fore with respect to an array of resources, and
in the process helped to invent what we now know as the fields of
environmental and natural resources law.
https://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=3541&context=facpubs
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Stand up for our wild horses now this is not right.
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“In Guyana, only a few people respect and treat animals kindly. These few acknowledge that animals like human, have the right to live free from human exploitation and abuse. In Guyana, animal cruelty is a tremendous problem.
Cruelty to animals in Guyana is a deep-rooted problem that dates back hundreds of years. Yet in the 21st century, animals continue to endure cruelty from the very people who ought to have protected and cared for them. We continue to starve, beat, kick, overwork and kill animals.
Those that are killed for food usually go through a very painful exercise. Many are cut up alive or get their necks broken or are beaten with steel rods or wood until they die. They are supposed to be slaughtered with stun guns but this has not been the case in Guyana.”
– Above are excerpts from “Animal Welfare Activists of Guyana” – Georgetown Branch facebook
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Debbie, who can we contact at BLM about this atrocity?
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I think it’s a disgrace that our government is not listening to the taxpayer’s. WE DO NOT WANT OUR HORSES AND BURROS SENT FOR SLAUGHTER OR TO BE USED AS PREY. The BLM should be able to come up with a better solution and not the way they want to sterilize the mares its inhumane. If they weren’t worried about putting money in their pockets for the cattle they could probably find a better solution.
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Let these horses live
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Mary Jo, t
hey would not be flown, they would be shipped which would be even worst…..
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The solicitation states they are to be flown at OUR expense and although they may only take 30-40 (?) per flight, the contract is for a full year. You and I will be paying for the living torture and eventual slaughter they will experience in Guyana.
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Stop rounding up our wild majestic horses and burros; and stop selling them ! Leave them alone ! If they r overpopulated, find a compassionate way to handle that ! We, the taxpayers, r sick of supporting such inhumane treatment of any animal, let alone those beautiful wild horses and burros !!!!
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