Photo by Rich Sladick at Return to Freedom
In December the National Park Service (NPS) announced proposed plans to manage wild horses and cattle within the Theodore Roosevelt National Park (TRNP). As part of the process the ... Read More
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Credit under video: Photo and video by Kurt Iswarienko for Milenio Magazine, at Return to Freedom’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary in San Luis Obispo, California 2021.
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LOMPOC, CALIF.–Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation on Thursday thanked Congress for recommending increased funding for the oversight of wild horses and burros on public lands.
Return to Freedom (RTF), a national nonprofit wild horse and burro conservation and advocacy organization, continues to strongly urge lawmakers to press the ... Read More
Return to Freedom is working hard to move a ban on horse slaughter through Congress, but this popular legislation to protect America’s horses remains bogged down in the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Time is rapidly running out for the current Congress to pass this important bill.
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Even as Return to Freedom (RTF) and an unprecedented coalition of animal welfare and horse industry groups work hard to advance a federal ban on horse slaughter, some organizations have made the unconscionable choice to lobby against it.
A few business groups like the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management recently ended a helicopter roundup on the Triple B Complex, located in Elko and White Pine counties in Nevada, having captured 1,897 wild horses while killing 23. The roundup stretched from July 27-Aug. 25.
Of the 23 wild horses killed, 17 were put down for what ... Read More