It's Time to End Horse Slaughter, for Good
It's long past time for Congress to pass the Safeguard American Food Exports Act (H.R. 113 / S. 1706), which would ban horse slaughter in the United States and the transportation of American horses out of the ... Read More
News and Noteworthy
America’s wild horses and burros are facing their last stand. Stand with us. Stand with the herds.
The challenge of managing America’s wild horses and burros need not be an intractable one. Now is the time to create a proud vision that will ensure for generations to come the freedom, health ... Read More
As published by The Hill
By Bill Richardson and Allen Rutberg
This summer, the House Appropriations Committee voted for the first time to authorize killing healthy wild horses and burros. It did so with the full support of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose department bears the ... Read More
Preliminary results indicate that 25 foals held in a single pen at the Bureau of Land Management's Litchfield Corrals may have died from colitis, or inflammation of the colon. BLM is waiting for results from additional blood and tissue samples that could point to the cause, according to a ... Read More
On Thursday, the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board recklessly voted to approve recommendations that call on the Bureau of Land Management to shoot tens of thousands of healthy wild horses and burros.
At its meeting in Grand Junction, Colo., the advisory board recommended that BLM achieve its on-range ... Read More
Bureau of Land Management officials said on Wednesday that they would not immediately provide a direct response to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board’s recommendation to kill captive animals.
Typically, the BLM responds to recommendations or provides a progress report at the board’s next meeting. At today’s advisory board ... Read More