by Erik Molvar – Charlotte Roe The global COP26 agreement opened a few new doors for addressing climate change, but the omissions speak volumes. Collective commitments to reduce CO2 emissions and to limit warming to 1.5° Celsius by 2030 went missing. The pledge to phase out coal production […]
by Jan Dutkiewicz, Gabriel N. Rosenberg as published on The New Republic The purveyors of “grass-fed” beef want you to believe that it solves meat’s environmental problem. But this is merely a branding exercise, not a climate solution. When foodies sink their teeth into a slab of cheese […]
Sources: Multiple The alleged emergency roundups that began Sunday and Monday target about 6,000 additional animals primarily in Nevada, Oregon and Colorado The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has begun efforts to capture and remove 50% more wild horses than they originally planned this year on public land […]
Source: PEER.org 40 Million Acres Fail Minimum Federal Standards for Rangeland Health Washington, DC — President Biden’s goal of conserving 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030 faces a major obstacle of the government’s own making – badly overgrazed federal range land. A minimum of 40 […]
Source: Peer.org Worst in West: Two-Thirds of Assessed BLM Allotments Badly Overgrazed Washington, DC — Federal rangeland in Nevada is being seriously damaged from overgrazing at a higher rate than any state in the West, according to a new analysis of U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) data […]
by David Neiwert and Daily Kos as published on AlterNet.org “Wild Horses and Burros are not the only native species fighting for their lives…” Amid hysterical claims that wolves are driving ranchers out of business, Idaho’s Republican state Senate this week approved legislation that would enable hired contractors […]
By Erik Molvar as published on the Sierra Nevada Ally “The Nevada legislature is debating a resolution to fast-track the removal of wild horses from public lands…” Opinion The Nevada legislature is debating a resolution to fast-track the removal of wild horses from public lands. Once again, the […]
Source: In Defense of Animals Recently we have been writing about individual militant anti-wild horse ranchers who take up arms to intimidate government agents regarding public land use. One of these cases involved father-and-son ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, who have spent time in prison for felony abuse […]
By Bill Simpson as published on the Mail Tribune Over the course of the past 50-years, since the passing of the 1971 Free Roaming Wild Burro And Horse Protection Act (1971), the management of wild horse herd management areas have undergone many changes resulting from political and economic […]
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 […]
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