News and Noteworthy

1200 cropped copy
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
Devils-Garden-8315
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
_MG_2046
New Territory For Frequently Asked Questions and Myths & Facts about the draft joint proposal to Congress for Fiscal Year 2020, please click here. Dear Friends, Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to reach out to us regarding our recently announced support of a joint ... Read More
April 25, 2019Cory Golden
SLOsocialedit-IreneVejar
Return to Freedom on Monday joined a diverse group of stakeholders to announce our support for a proposal to Congress that will at last place the Bureau of Land Management on a path toward non-lethal, humane, on-range management of America’s wild horses and burros. The controversy over the use of ... Read More
April 22, 2019Cory Golden
running horses- P.IANES
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2019 Groups endorse proposal as a humane, non-lethal strategy for sustainably managing wild horses and burros WASHINGTON–The ASPCA®(The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Humane Society Legislative Fund, in concert with ... Read More
April 22, 2019Cory Golden