Return to Freedom successfully lobbied for Congress’s requirement that the Bureau of Land Management finally abides by its own Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program, a humane-handling protocol during roundups, ... Read More
Dear Wild Horse Advocate,
Good news! The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted to approve a Fiscal Year 2019 Interior Appropriations bill that again includes language that would bar the Bureau ... Read More
June 15, 2018Cory Golden
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved the Fiscal Year 2019 Agriculture Appropriations bill that includes language defunding horse slaughter inspections for another year.
This stop-gap measure has helped us keep ... Read More
May 24, 2018Cory Golden
Registration is now open for Return to Freedom's summer programs, including a new lineup of Youth and Family Day events!
On the first ... Read More
May 20, 2018Cory Golden
Dear Friends,
The easiest part of saving the life of a horse is getting the horse.
Anyone faced with providing a lifetime of care and feeding for one horse —much less ... Read More
April 4, 2018Cory Golden
Dear Friends,
Freedom and his mares nose around on the hillside. Other horses roll in the dust, then shake. Some of the older horses, like 32-year-old Sutter, doze in ... Read More
March 31, 2018Cory Golden
Dear Friends of Return to Freedom,
Life is always busy here at Return to Freedom’s headquarters on California’s Central Coast.
In 2016, we became aware of a sanctuary in the Midwest in desperate ... Read More
March 8, 2018Cory Golden
Today, March 1, is National Horse Protection Day -- and America's horses need your help, right now.
Even though the Fiscal Year 2018 federal budget battles remain unresolved, all indications are that the ... Read More
March 2, 2018Cory Golden
Before I started the national campaign to end horse slaughter in 2001, I spent time at auctions, watching kill ... Read More
January 27, 2018Cory Golden
by Elena Bajona, Applied Equine Behaviorist for RTF
We are excited to announce the birth of a new Choctaw horse conservation effort thanks to Sarah Shaw, of Nature Defense Foundation. Today, ... Read More
January 27, 2018Cory Golden