Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation (RTF) is expanding public awareness of the plight of America’s wild horses through a new public ... Read More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has restricted the export of live animals to Mexico — including the shipping of horses and other equines to slaughter — due to the detection ... Read More
WASHINGTON, DC (May 22, 2026) – By a vote of 34-30, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed its five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill, which includes a bipartisan amendment ... Read More
Good news! — The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today passed a surface transportation reauthorization bill that includes a bipartisan ban on transporting horses for slaughter.
The amendment mirrors the ... Read More
The House Interior Subcommittee has included prohibitions against the government killing healthy wild horses and burros or selling them to slaughter in its Fiscal Year 2027 bill language released on ... Read More
Jumping into Regenerative Wine: Santa Barbara County Vintners Join Global Effort to Fix Farming
As published by Santa Barbara Independent
It’s an unseasonably sunny and warm February morning in the Santa ... Read More
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation on Friday demanded that the U.S. Forest Service immediately stop unlawful actions toward capturing and removing wild horses from Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona.
In ... Read More
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Return to Freedom’s Founder Neda DeMayo has had horse sense since her earliest memories.
“Horse was ... Read More
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Join us April 20 for a special webinar about wild horse behavior!
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Return to Freedom is thrilled to welcome five new rescued donkeys to a lifetime of sanctuary.
After being rescued by our friends at All Seated in A Barn from the notorious ... Read More