Despite growing public outrage and the threat of more legal action, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is keeping to its announced time table of rounding up almost half (14,518) of America’s wild horses and burros in the current fiscal year.
By Karen Woodmansee There won’t be a merry Christmas this year for the wild horses of Nevada Wild horse advocates are upset that the Nevada Department of Agriculture has sold Virginia Range horses to a horse broker in Elko with a reputation for selling the animals to slaughterhouses. […]
Image via Wikipedia CHICAGO, (EWA), – The Equine Welfare Alliance (EWA), an organization representing more than 70 member organizations, strongly applauds the recent announcement from the New York Racing Association (NYRA) establishing a zero tolerance policy toward horse slaughter at its race tracks. Chris Hayward, NYRA president and […]
The American West’s wild horse saga will not end without a good fight from lovers of the land and the animals.
Wild Horse Advocate and Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker, Ginger Kathrens Screens Latest Cloud Film in Chicago Chicago, IL (December 10, 2009)—Ginger Kathrens brings wild horse drama to Chicago this weekend with a series of screenings and public appearances for all ages beginning today through December 13th. Last Monday the […]
by Carol Abel A new price tag has come to light for the highly controversial roundup of more than 2,700 wild horses from the Calico Complex in Northern Nevada; an expenditure almost double the previously reported number. In a telephone interview earlier this week, Alan Shepard, Bureau of […]
EWA has now learned the EU will accept affidavits from killer buyers and haulers employed by the offshore slaughter industry as proof that animals have passed the quarantine period.
The Nevada Department of Agriculture’s covert deal to send wild horses to slaughter dealer Kevin D. “Ole” Olsen.
BLM ignores the public, again, and is out of control CHICAGO, (EWA) – Wild horse advocates from around the US reacted with dismay and outrage Wednesday as the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that the Calico Complex round-up of over 2,700 wild horses will proceed on December […]
The Bureau of Land Management‘s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board will be meeting in Sparks on Monday, December 7, at John Ascuaga’s Nugget, 1100 Nugget Avenue, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The full meeting agenda is published in the November 10, 2009, Federal Register on […]
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