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WASHINGTON—Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced legislation today to permanently end the slaughter of American horses for human consumption in the United ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
The Bureau of Land Management has updated its wild horse and burro roundup calendar.
The agency has plans to capture a total of 6,743 wild horses and burros, removing 6,543, for Fiscal Year 2019, which ends on Sept. 30. It has tentatively set two roundups totaling 400 removals in October ... Read More
Read more about why Return to Freedom strongly opposes sterilization here.
As published by E&E News
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is striking back at the Bureau of Land Management's latest attempt to test a permanent sterilization technique on wild horses.
The group of 30 congressional leaders, including four Republicans, ... 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 provide recommendations to the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service on the management of wild horses and ... 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 helped us keep slaughter plants inside the United States closed since 2007 as we work to pass the SAFE Act ... 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 burros by calling on the Bureau of Land Management to develop humane, non-lethal and sustainable management practices.
The committee approved as ... Read More