News and Noteworthy

  Update: Read the full press release here. Another win for wild horses! The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the Bureau of Land Management violated both the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act when it rounded up 1,263 wild horses ... Read More
October 14, 2016AnnieFannie
As published by Today's News-Herald A proposal to treat wild burros in Mohave County with the fertility control drug PZP is gaining traction. For more than four decades, land management agencies have endured an increasingly difficult challenge of how to control the growth of wild horse and burro populations across ... Read More
October 14, 2016AnnieFannie
  Return to Freedom agrees the current system is broken: often inhumane in its treatment of wild horses and burros, wrenching them from their home ranges and family bands, and costly for taxpayers. RTF advocates for humane, on-range management of wild horses and burros through the aggressive implementation of fertility control, as ... Read More
October 14, 2016AnnieFannie
  Return to Freedom and other members of the wild horse and burro sanctuary community have launched a new organization, the Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary Alliance, to help address sanctuary emergencies and bolster sanctuaries over the long term. The Alliance has arranged for several shipments of hay to ... Read More
October 12, 2016AnnieFannie
  The October-November issue of Cowgirl magazine feature a terrific story by Wendy Wilkinson about actress and animal advocate Wendie Malik, who is not only a friend of Return to Freedom and supporter of wild horses but who adopted a pair of RTF horses, Stuart and Bo. In the profile, Wendie recalls how she ... Read More
October 12, 2016AnnieFannie
Elizabeth Hines Return to Freedom
  To donate to the Wild Horse Legal Defense Fund, please click here. To sign Return to Freedom’s anti-roundup petition, please click here. As published by The Denver Post The U.S. Appeals Court in Denver Tuesday upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a suit the state of Wyoming filed ... Read More
October 11, 2016AnnieFannie