The sponsor of legislation to ban horse slaughter, Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., announced his retirement today.
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News and Noteworthy
The Bureau of Land Management is set to begin a helicopter roundup of 182 wild horses in northern Nevada on Monday.
What’s being deemed an emergency roundup will be conducted in an area affected by the Jakes Fire, a wildfire that burned about 82,000 acres northeast of Winnemucca, Nev., last August. ... Read More
At least 24,188 American equines were shipped to Mexican or Canadian slaughterhouses during 2025 — a 21% increase from a year earlier.
The total number of exports for the year does not yet include November and December figures for Canada, which are not yet available.
The year-over-year increase is a sobering reminder ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments until Wednesday, Jan. 21, about its plan to capture and remove hundreds of wild burros from the range.
The burros live on the Lake Pleasant Herd Management Area (HMA), located in the Sonoran Desert about 30 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix, Ariz. ... Read More
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a funding package that includes wild horse and burro protections and rejects proposed cuts to the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program.
The Senate voted 82-15 to pass the appropriations package, which will fund through September the Interior, Energy, Commerce and Justice ... Read More
Wild horses update: The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted 397-28 to approve an Interior Department appropriations package including key protections for wild horses and burros.
The funding package is expected to pass the U.S. Senate and be signed into law next week.
The bill includes $144 million for the Bureau ... Read More