A lawsuit has been launched against the Bureau of Land Management in the US over their plans to decimate the wild horse population.
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Over 145 mustangs being held in a holding facility died of equine flu because it was short-staffed and the horses were “high-strung".
The animals had been placed for adoption by the BLM’s adoption programs, which puts federally protected equines at risk of slaughter.
Wild Beauty Foundation and Animal Wellness Action have teamed up to produce a feature film focusing on the issues facing America’s mustangs.
New York Times exposes the link between the BLM Adoption Incentive Program and the slaughter of federally-protected wild horses and burros.
The latest move to control US wild horse populations involves rounding up and spaying mares before returning them to the wild.
The U.S. Forest Service has announced a roundup of 200 wild horses in a mountainous area northwest of Las Vegas is set to begin May 10, 2018.
News broke recently that the Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board had recommended euthanizing 45,000 wild horses and burros being held in government holding facilities throughout the United States.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) …
The Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board voted to recommend euthanasia of all unadopted wild horses and burros now in government holding facilities throughout the United States.
In response, Humane Society of the United States …
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) must answer why they allowed hundreds of wild mustangs to be sold for slaughter over a four-year period. It has come to light that the BLM sold nearly 1,800 horses to Colorado rancher Tom …
On March 24th, a coalition of animal and environmental groups filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to stop the U.S. Forest Service from eliminating thousands of acres of protected territory and rounding up …
