Often forgotten, the gentle burros are, likewise, under attack by governmental agencies in an attempt to mirror efforts to manage all native wild equines into extinction
by Elaine Nash as published on FaceBook Animal Planet Here We Come As I posted earlier, we saw 10 mares off on their several-month long journey to Alaska yesterday. Six of them will be going to the Chena Hot Springs Resort near Fairbanks. The other four have an […]
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by Sarah Emerson as published on Motherboard “Secretary Zinke was proud to accept an invitation by the US Park Police to stand shoulder to shoulder with their officers on his first day at Interior..” Hats off to Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, for making a dramatic entrance on his […]
by Rachael Turner as published on Horse and Hound “There’s about 700 donkeys coming here to wait to die. There’s no food, there’s no water…” The ‘horrific’ conditions facing donkeys in markets in Tanzania have been highlighted by welfare groups. The Donkey Sanctuary’s Alex Mayers and Thomas Kahema, […]
By Merritt Clifton editor of Animals 24-7 “…donkeys fall into a unique and difficult niche: that of a species formerly kept almost exclusively in poorer parts of the world as a work animal…” BEIJING––Can demand for a commodity that constitutes only one ten-thousandth of the global market for […]
By Erik Molvar as published on The Idaho Statesman “BLM; Take Note!” ~ R.T. “It is intolerable that agencies entrusted with enforcing our laws are themselves wantonly violating them…” Conservation groups cheered when a federal judge ruled last month that the Forest Service and Idaho Department of Fish […]
“Wild horses and burros survived centuries in perfect balance and harmony without the intervention of humans. The removal of natural predators upsets the natural balance and the crisis rolls downhill initiating even more violent intervention by humans. If we, as humans, would step back and cease attempting to manage something that does not require to be controlled the world would be a much better place to live for humans and animals alike. Keep the faith.” ~ R.T.
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Story by Sarah V Schweig as published on The Dodo Warning: Graphic Content – What they’re used for is such a waste For centuries, in rural cultures across the globe, one animal has been an important part of the family, helping to keep farms and villages running. Not […]
Source: ISPMB/Emergency Adoption Mission “The ‘Hallelujah Horses’ Need Your Help!” Volunteers are scrambling to find homes for hundreds of wild horses in South Dakota that were spared a possible trip to the slaughterhouse but are now suffering through a harsh winter. The horses, some of them blind, were […]
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