The Bureau of Land Management recently completed a bait-and-trap roundup in which 425 burros and 97 wild horses were captured and removed from the Spring Mountains Complex, about 60 miles from Las Vegas.
One burro, a 13-year-old jenny, died from a broken neck during the three-month roundup, which ended June ... Read More
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Seventeen members of Congress sent a letter to the Trump administration on Wednesday urging the president to sign an executive order permanently banning horse slaughter.
Live horse exports to Mexico have been suspended due to the discovery of new world screwworm in Texas.
“A permanent ban on the export of American ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management this week completed a bait-and-trap roundup in which 1,001 wild horses were captured and 16 killed.
The roundup, which began in March, took place on the Antelope and Triple B Herd Management Area complexes near Elko, Nev. It was conducted using temporary traps made of corral ... Read More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has restricted the export of live animals to Mexico — including the shipping of horses and other equines to slaughter — due to the detection of New World screwworm in the United States.
The halt comes as Congress is moving closer to finally imposing a ban ... Read More
WASHINGTON, DC (May 22, 2026) – By a vote of 34-30, the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed its five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill, which includes a bipartisan amendment led by U.S. Reps. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.) and Dina Titus (D-Nev.), joined by Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Jimmy ... Read More
Good news! — The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today passed a surface transportation reauthorization bill that includes a bipartisan ban on transporting horses for slaughter.
The amendment mirrors the goals of two bills that RTF has long supported: the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act, a horse slaughter ban ... Read More