Stallions play with their young and correct inappropriate behaviors. Stallions also work to maintain band cohesion and — ever watchful and alert — place themselves between their families and perceived ... Read More
The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board has announced meetings July 9-11 in Boise, Idaho, and Oct. 29-31 in Washington, D.C.
The nine-member board typically meets twice per year to ... Read More
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday voted to approve a Fiscal Year 2020 Agriculture Appropriations bill that includes language defunding horse slaughter inspections for another year.
This stop-gap measure has ... Read More
House appropriators demand BLM use fertility control, include wild horse protections in funding bill
A Step Forward for Wild Horses
Return to Freedom on Wednesday applauded the House Appropriations Committee for taking an unprecedented step toward on-range oversight of America’s wild horses and ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management is again proposing an August spay study on 100 wild mares captured at the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in Oregon.
BLM aims to determine the ... Read More
Our summer program season is off to an exciting start, with a full house for both our first Lompoc sanctuary tour and Youth & Family Day.
Forty-six adults and 16 children ... Read More
As published by The Hill
By Kitty Block, Matt Bershadker, Sara Amundson and Neda DeMayo
Our nation guaranteed protection to wild horses and burros in 1971 by passing the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros ... Read More
Mares always know when to intervene when foals play too rough. They know how to set boundaries. Although foals learn etiquette from all the matriarchs and stallions in their herd, ... Read More
Help us continue the fight against horse slaughter: Donate to RTF's Wild Horse Defense Fund!
Thursday marked a positive day in federal court in Return to Freedom’s ongoing fight to ... Read More
Sixty-four members of Congress have signed a letter of concern to the U.S. Forest Service about its plan to sell older wild horses captured at Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory ... Read More