As soon as Monday, the Bureau of Land Management is set to begin a month-long helicopter roundup in and around the Triple B Complex in Eastern Nevada with a goal of capturing and removing 800 wild horses.
The 1.6 million-acre complex includes the Triple B, Maverick Medicine and ... Read More
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Return to Freedom is working hard in the fight against horse slaughter: the ultimate betrayal of the horses, burros and other equines that are so important to our country’s history and culture.
The battle is advancing on several fronts:
--In the House of Representatives, the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act has ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management recently concluded a bait-and-trap roundup of 188 burros from public lands on the Seven Troughs Herd Management Area, located about 75 miles northeast of Reno, Nev.
A total of 128 jacks, 56 jennies and four foals were removed. An 8-year-old jenny suffered a broken neck at ... Read More
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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
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.
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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