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LOMPOC, CALIF.–Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation this week thanked the Senate Interior Appropriations Committee for including language in its Fiscal Year 2024 funding package that can improve the management of America’s wild horses and burros.
A national nonprofit advocacy organization, Return to Freedom (RTF) works with lawmakers on ... Read More
God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.
R.B. Cunninghame Graham
Letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
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The Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act would expand the Dog and Cat Meat Prohibition Act passed in the 2018 Farm Bill to include equines, permanently protecting American horses from slaughter
WASHINGTON, DC (May 18, 2023) –As equine enthusiasts celebrate Adopt a Horse Month this May, a bipartisan group ... Read More
CHEYENNE, WYO.--Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation announced on May 17, 2023 that it had filed suit in federal court to stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from stripping about 2 million acres from wild horses in southwest Wyoming for the benefit of private livestock ranchers.
“This decision must not ... Read More
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LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA -- A total of 19,989 American horses were shipped to slaughter plants in Mexico or Canada in 2022, according to government statistics.
While this represents a 14.7% decrease from the previous year, the foreign slaughter pipeline continues to be a shameful open secret with only an unscrupulous ... Read More
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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
LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA -- Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation on Thursday applauded the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to award an estimated $500,000 in grants to public and private partners for the benefit of wild horses and burros, even as RTF continues to stress the need for the agency ... Read More