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
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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
The Bureau of Land Management is again proposing an August spay study on 100 wild mares captured at the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in Oregon.
BLM aims to determine the feasibility of performing ovariectomies via colpotomy. This is a rare procedure which removes the ovaries by crushing and pulling them ... Read More
As published by The Hill
By Kitty Block, Matt Bershadker, Sara Amundson and Neda DeMayo
Our nation guaranteed protection to wild horses and burros in 1971 by passing the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, which ensured they would remain safe and federally protected on our rangelands. But in the nearly 50 years since, ... Read More
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Thursday marked a positive day in federal court in Return to Freedom’s ongoing fight to prevent horses from Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory in Northern California from being shipped to slaughter – and to keep ... Read More
Sixty-four members of Congress have signed a letter of concern to the U.S. Forest Service about its plan to sell older wild horses captured at Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory without restriction, placing them in danger of being purchased by kill buyers.
In a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and ... Read More