As published by The Las Vegas Sun
A controversial initiative that has divided equine advocates on how to best manage wild horse populations is making headway toward congressional approval.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management warns that public lands in the U.S. are being overrun by an ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
As published by Horsetalk.co.nz
A US Senate committee is being hailed for a funding boost which advocates hope will be a first, important step in moving American wild horse management away from unsustainable and widely criticized roundups and long-term holding.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation thanked the Senate Appropriations ... Read More
Return to Freedom Applauds Senators for Investment in Fertility Control, Which Can Replace Wild Horse Roundups as Primary Management Tool After Decades of Controversy
Read the Senate bill language here. Read the guiding report language here.
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation today expressed gratitude to the Senate Appropriations ... Read More
With the capture of five studs, four mares and foal on Sunday, the U.S. Forest Service is more than halfway to its goal of removing another 500 wild horses from the Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in Northen California.
Through Sunday, 256 wild horses from California's last large wild horse ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management on Sunday completed a nine-day helicopter roundup in which 558 wild horses were captured and 533 wild horses were removed from their home range on the Fish Creek Herd Management Area in Nevada. Five horses died.
The BLM released 20 of the captured wild horses back ... Read More
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday included language in the Fiscal Year 2020 Agriculture Appropriations bill defunding horse slaughter inspections for another year.
This stop-gap measure has helped us keep slaughter plants inside the United States closed since 2007 as we work to pass the SAFE Act (H.R. 961 / S. ... Read More