News and Noteworthy

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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
May 22, 2019Cory Golden
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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
May 21, 2019Cory Golden
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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
May 13, 2019Cory Golden
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Help us continue the fight against horse slaughter: Donate to RTF's Wild Horse Defense Fund! 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
May 10, 2019Cory Golden
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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
May 6, 2019Cory Golden
  For more information about the proposal to Congress, click here and here. For an F.A.Q. about the proposal, click here. As published by The Associated Press Animal welfare groups have reached a milestone agreement with ranching interests they say would save wild mustangs from slaughter but the compromise ... Read More
April 25, 2019Cory Golden