Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation and a coalition of advocates on Friday filed to voluntarily dismiss a 2018 lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Forest Service from selling hundreds of wild horses from California’s last large herd to slaughter.
The plaintiffs did so after successful lobbying by RTF, the Humane Society ... 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
For Immediate Release
LOMPOC, CALIFORNIA (Feb. 10, 2020) –Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation on Monday expressed relief that for the first time a presidential administration is proposing a much-needed investment into non-lethal steps to improve the management of America’s wild horses and burros.
Still, concerns remain. President Trump's budget proposal also ... Read More
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For Immediate Release
U.S. House Subcommittee Hears Testimony on Federal Legislation to Ban Horse Slaughter
The Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act would permanently ban horse slaughter in the U.S. and end the export of horses for slaughter abroad
WASHINGTON, DC (Jan. 29, 2020) –The U.S. House Subcommittee on Health of the Committee ... Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation today expressed gratitude to Congress for unveiling a Fiscal Year 2020 funding package that includes a $21 million investment for a wild horse management strategy built upon the use of proven, safe and humane fertility control.
This is a first step toward ending the ... Read More
Roy Dunlap Foundation pledges $32,000 to reward fund in cooperation with Return to Freedom
The reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting deaths of 46 wild burros in California has grown to $100,000, following a $32,000 pledge from the Roy Dunlap Foundation.
Anyone with information about the ... Read More
RTF calls on Congress to support non-lethal management path proposed by stakeholders
Casey Hammond, the Interior Department's principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, told the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board on Thursday that the Trump administration is no longer pursuing euthanasia for unadopted wild horses ... Read More