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Livestock industry’s campaign to get rid of wild horses is a scam to cheat the taxpayers
By Erik Molvar as published on The Wildlife News There’s an organized campaign underway to get wild horses off America’s western public lands, and the livestock industry is both its primary salesman and beneficiary. It’s all about the money and expanding the livestock industry’s stranglehold on western public […]
Neguse, colleagues pen letter to Pelosi: Wild horse roundups ‘harmful to health of animals,’ keep PZP in 2021 funding
by John LaConte as published on the Vail Daily “…holding facilities, like the roundups themselves, are often harmful to the health and well-being of these animals…” A Nov. 25 letter from 22 members of Congress, including House Representative Joe Neguse, urges House leadership to consider a more “humane […]
Bureau of Land Management Abdicates Obligation to Manage our Wild Equines Humanely
By Scott Beckstead and Marty Irby as published on The Boulder Weekly “We Americans are inspired by our wild horses…” We marvel at the sight of them living wild and free on our public rangelands, of stallions fighting for their family bands, of newborn foals learning to stand […]
The Focus on Wild Horses Distracts From the Massive Damage Caused by the Livestock Industry
The Washington Post Magazine recently ran a misleading story on wild horses, focusing attention on anti-federalist ranchers in Nevada and the big money behind them. By failing to look beyond the superficial personality conflicts, and missing the real and important public lands issues, this article does its readers a disservice.
‘Black Beauty’ actress, director reveal how the Disney+ film woke them up to the plight of Wild Horses & Burros
By Andrea Lans “I was just really impassioned, realizing as a horse person, I didn’t know that was happening with the helicopter roundups and the mass holding,” TOPANGA, Calif. — “Black Beauty” tells the timeless coming-of-age story of a wild horse and the human she forms a deep, […]
Feds to begin surgical sterilizations on wild horses, starting with a Utah herd
By Brian Maffly as published on The Salt Lake Tribune Over the objections of animal welfare advocates, the Bureau of Land Management plans to initiate a controversial program of surgically sterilizing female wild horses, starting in Utah as soon as this month with the planned roundup of the […]
Feel Good Sunday: Video~Mini Horse Heroes Surprised by the Community They Help
Source: The Dodo When these spunky mini horses were rescued, they hadn’t had much love or attention. But their new family helped them become therapy horses who have helped hundreds of people! Today on Party Animals, Gunner and Sammy are celebrating two years of service — with horse […]
Scarborough Downs will halt live horse racing this month, ending a 70-year run
By Mike Lowe as published on The Portland Press Herald The track, which opened with thoroughbred racing in 1950, has struggled through years of financial hardship and will hold its last harness racing card on Nov. 28. Scarborough Downs will hold its last live harness racing event on […]
The Red Desert Complex Roundup, Largest in History is Finally Over – but What About the Horses?
by Carol Walker, first published on Wild Hoofbeats, sponsored by Wild Horse Freedom Federation Mares and foal in a family that is no longer free, one day before being captured The Red Desert Complex roundup is finally over. This was a continuation of a roundup that began in […]
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