Source: EcoWatch.com “Provisions in the budget…would allow the BLM to kill captured wild horses or sell them without restriction—a change that would enable buyers to purchase wild horses on the cheap and haul them to Canada or Mexico for slaughter.” Robert Redford, Ed Harris, Elle Fanning, Ian Somerhalder […]
Equine Advocates, Inc. Robert Redford, a life-long horse lover, has been publicly against equine slaughter for a long time – which is why we are so honored to have his support for this petition appealing to President Obama and Vice President Biden to end this cruel and unethical […]
SOURCE: news.yahoo.com By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) – The first effort of its kind to prevent wild horses roaming the Navajo Nation in the U.S. Southwest from being sent to slaughter in Mexico has gained the preliminary approval of tribal leaders, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson said on […]
Bill Richardson, former Gov. of New Mexico SOURCE: santafenewmexican.com Newly installed Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye is renegotiating a wild horse protection agreement with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and actor/activist Robert Redford. Richardson and Redford formed the Foundation to Protect New Mexico Wildlife in 2013 […]
Open Letter from Robert Redford as published in USA Today Wild horse populations vary between 32,000 and 50,000 while livestock grazing allocations accommodate numbers in the millions. Yes, in the millions. Horses and I have had a shared existence, personal and professional, for as long as I can remember. And while I carry […]
Press Release from Equine Advocates “Victoria McCullough announced at our first American Equine Summit in 2012 that she would take on the challenge of ending horse slaughter in the U.S…” CHATHAM, N.Y., Jan. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Equine Advocates would like thank these key players in expediting the end […]
By Milan Simonich as published in The New Mexican “De Los Santos “a serial violator of environmental laws” when he slaughtered cattle at his plant…” State District Judge Matthew Wilson of Santa Fe heard two hours of arguments Friday before extending a temporary restraining order against De Los […]
Source: New York Times “Our land is precious to the Navajo people as are all the horses on the Navajo Nation. Horses are sacred animals to us.” PHOENIX — Under pressure by animal welfare groups and many of his own people, the president of the Navajo Nation, Ben […]
Source: Multiple “Ruling complicates recent win to save American horses from slaughter” ALBUQUERQUE — A federal magistrate on Thursday ordered equine advocacy groups that won a temporary ban on domestic horse slaughter to post a bond of nearly $500,000 as they continue their legal fight to save America’s […]
Source: by Gary Gerew of the Albuquerque Business First “Secretary Vilsack made it clear to me that he opposes horse slaughter…” Former Gov. Bill Richardson Thursday met in Washington D.C with meet with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and urge him to stop the reopening of horse slaughterhouses, but […]
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