by Scott Streater, as published on E&E News “The provision in the latest omnibus bill was requested last year as part of President Obama’s fiscal 2017 budget proposal (Greenwire, Feb. 10, 2016).” The omnibus spending package the Senate approved today contains a provision that would make it easier […]
Source: American Wild Horse Campaign Over the weekend, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees restored language to the 2017 Omnibus spending bill that opens the back door to killing potentially thousands of wild horses and burros. The language amends the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act by […]
by Debbie Coffey, V.P. & Dir. of Wild Horse Affairs, Wild Horse Freedom Federation All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2017 On the Bureau of Land Management’s new website, on the Program Data page for the Wild Horse & Burro Program (under the Wild Horse and Burro Sales to Private […]
by Liz Tyson as published on One Green Planet “Many of our donkeys have been rescued from miserable live animal markets…” Hamish, Clover, and Darcy were tiny babies, not yet weaned, when they were taken from their mothers and sent to be sold illegally at a market in the […]
Source: Register-Star Susan Wagner, president of Equine Advocates Rescue & Sanctuary, stands with Pensacola Pete, a donkey that was rescued by the organization in 2015. By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media CHATHAM – After 15 years working in the horse racing industry, Sue Wagner rescued her first horse from […]
Source: Equine Advocates As we continue to supply new information about the dangers, criminal activity and food fraud involved with the slaughter of equines for human consumption both in the U.S. and abroad, you must realize that all of these incidents are very much intertwined and connected. Please […]
Source: Multiple “The Safeguard American Food Exports Act — would bar horse slaughter in the U.S. and ban horse shipments to Mexico” Advocates for horses worry that U.S. restrictions against slaughtering the animals in this country soon could come to an end, and one Missouri lawmaker says he […]
Source: express.co.uk SLAUGHTER: 3,600 wild horses shot down in mass animal cull because they ‘damage nature’ photo: Getty RANGERS have shot down roughly 20 per cent of the wild animals of Kakadu Park, a Unesco world heritage site in the Australian Northern Territory, because the animals could cause […]
The Bureau of Land Management offices in Rock Springs and Rawlins are launching a 30-day public scoping period prior to preparing an environmental assessment on proposed deadly wild horse stampedes in the Salt Wells Creek, Adobe Town, and Great Divide Basin Herd Management Areas.
The war on Wyoming’s last remaining wild horses is allegedly scheduled to begin in the fall of 2017.
Story by Pat Raia as published on The Horse “False documentation (has) been a proven fact for years, yet nothing is ever done about it…” Beginning in March 31, all horses imported from the United States into horse processing plants in Canada must be held in U.S.-side feedlots […]
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