WASHINGTON, DC – Aug. 4, 2017 – Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned a decision by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to cut the size of the habitat area for California’s largest remaining wild horse herd. The court characterized as “arbitrary and capricious the USFS’ ... Read More
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Sens. Bob Menendez, D-New Jersey, Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Wednesday re-introduced a Senate version of the SAFE Act, which would ban horse slaughter within the United States and the transportation of American horses to slaughter abroad.
Specifically, the bill, S. 1706 ... Read More
As published by the Reno Gazette-Journal
Wild horses have long been a symbol of the American West, and Nevada is home to more than half, almost 35,000 at last count.
Yet the horses and wild burros, on about 27 million acres in 10 Western states, have not ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management is planning one of its largest roundup in years for this fall – capturing as many as 6,737 wild horses from the Antelope and Triple B Herd Management Area complexes between Wells and Ely, Nevada.
The BLM estimates that 7,739 wild horses live on the two ... Read More
As published by horsetalk.co.nz
The House Appropriations Committee has altered a spending bill in a way that opens the door to the potential slaughter of tens of thousands of captive American wild horses.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) says a few western lawmakers succeeded in getting the committee ... Read More
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation on Thursday commended the Senate Appropriations Committee for approving, on a voice vote, an amendment keeping alive the effort to prevent the cruel and costly industry of horse slaughter from returning to the United States.
“With today’s bipartisan vote against horse slaughter, the Senate Appropriations ... Read More