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The Bureau of Land Management captured 1,150 wild burros and killed two during a 16-day helicopter roundup that ended Wednesday, Jan. 24, on the Black Mountain Herd Management Area in Arizona.
On the roundup's final day, ... Read More
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Neda DeMayo received the EQUUS Foundation Humanitarian Award at the Pegasus Awards Dinner on January 14, 2024, during the US Equestrian Federation (USEF) Annual Meeting in Louisville, Ky.
The EQUUS Foundation and the USEF established the Humanitarian Award in 2009 to honor a member of the equestrian ... Read More
Return to Freedom recently joined animal welfare and equine industry groups to pen a letter to key congressional leaders in support of the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act (H.R. 3475/S. 2037).
The bill would permanently ban horse slaughter in the United States as well as the export of American horses ... Read More
While Return to Freedom appreciates that a greater percentage of mares were treated and released on this Herd Management Area, we do not support the BLM conducting a costly, dangerous helicopter roundup where the wild horse population is already within Appropriate Management Level – especially when the agency has voiced ... Read More
The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board gave a push to the Bureau of Land Management to complete the steps necessary for significant wild horse management changes to occur.
In recommendations finalized Thursday at the board’s meeting in Phoenix, the board called on the BLM to complete rulemaking and regulation ... Read More
Not long ago, the Texas Ten—10 burros that ended up at the Bowie Texas feedlot—were fated to be torturously shipped to a Mexican slaughterhouse.
But thanks to our supporters, we were able to say, “Yes, we will help them,” to a colleague who worked ... Read More