News and Noteworthy

Tomahawk and El Pres- P.IANES
Calico stallions Tomahawk, left, and El Presidente taken at RTF’s Lompoc, Calif., headquarters sanctuary by Paloma Ianes. Time is running out to pass the SAFE Act to ban horse slaughter in the United States and the export of ... Read More
November 20, 2020Cory Golden
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Photo taken at RTF's San Luis Obispo, Calif., satellite sanctuary by Kaitlyn Toay. The Bureau of Land Management plans to surgically sterilize wild mares and geld stallions captured during a roundup scheduled to begin Nov. 29, ... Read More
November 14, 2020Cory Golden
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A contractor's helicopter pursues wild horses on the Red Desert Complex on Oct. 12. Photo by Meg Frederick for RTF. The Bureau of Land Management has captured 1,969 wild horses from the Red Desert Complex in Wyoming through ... Read More
November 13, 2020Cory Golden
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Pancake Complex wild horses rounded up in 2012. BLM Nevada file photo. The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments on its plan to reduce over a 10-year period by 3,938 to 7,142 wild horses the population ... Read More
November 12, 2020Cory Golden
Fish Creek HMA June 2019
Wild horses photographed on the Fish Creek Herd Management Area in June 2019. BLM photo. On or about Monday, Nov. 16, the Bureau of Land Management is set to begin a helicopter roundup of 195 wild horses on ... Read More
November 11, 2020Cory Golden
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Wild horses at RTF's San Luis Obispo, Calif., satellite sanctuary. Photo by Bari Lee. A growing body of evidence shows that far from being an invasive species, the horse originated in North America some 53 million years ago ... Read More
November 10, 2020Cory Golden