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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
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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.
The Save America’s Forgotten Equines ... Read More
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
The U.S. Forest Service plans to capture and remove another 500 wild horses from Devil’s Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory, near Alturas, Calif., home to one of the state’s last large herds, starting Sept. 12.
The USFS estimates there are 1,205 adult wild horses on and around the territory -- a ... Read More
One stallion was captured on Thursday, the 12th day of an ongoing Bureau of Land Management helicopter roundup in Iron and Beaver Counties in Utah, bringing the total number of wild horses captured to 286 since the roundup began on Aug. 7.
Of the 137 mares, 87 stallions and 62 foals captured, ... Read More