Join us May 10 for a fun-filled celebration of the Opening Day of our program season and Spirit’s 30th birthday at our Lompoc, Calif., headquarters sanctuary!
See Spirit, the Kiger mustang stallion that served as the animator’s muse and model during the making of the 2002 DreamWorks Animation feature film, ... Read More
Return to Freedom — eNews
More threats loom in Washington, D.C., and this has a direct impact on America’s wild horses. We are locked in a federal court battle over the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to take away 2 million acres from wild horses in Southwest Wyoming for the benefit of private ranchers.
Last August, we ... Read More
Return to Freedom successfully lobbied for Congress’s requirement that the Bureau of Land Management finally abides by its own Comprehensive Animal Welfare Program, a humane-handling protocol during roundups, starting in Fiscal Year 2020.
Just since Sept. 1, we’ve seen the BLM and its contractor, Cattoor Livestock, repeatedly trod over ... Read More
Dear Wild Horse Advocate,
Good news! The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted to approve a Fiscal Year 2019 Interior Appropriations bill that again includes language that would bar the Bureau of Land Management from killing healthy wild horses and burros or selling them to slaughter.
Thanks to advocates like you who ... Read More
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved the Fiscal Year 2019 Agriculture Appropriations bill that includes language defunding horse slaughter inspections for another year.
This stop-gap measure has helped us keep slaughter plants closed as we work to pass the SAFE Act to permanently ban horse slaughter and the transport of ... Read More
Registration is now open for Return to Freedom's summer programs, including a new lineup of Youth and Family Day events!
On the first Saturday of the month, from June-August, RTF will host special events for children ages 8-16 and their parents. Find out what ... Read More
Dear Friends,
The easiest part of saving the life of a horse is getting the horse.
Anyone faced with providing a lifetime of care and feeding for one horse —much less 500—learns that very quickly.
As a sanctuary that has made a promise of care and safety to a huge number of ... Read More
Dear Friends,
Freedom and his mares nose around on the hillside. Other horses roll in the dust, then shake. Some of the older horses, like 32-year-old Sutter, doze in the sun’s warmth, manes barely moving in the breeze.
It’s spring at RTF’s American Wild Horse Sanctuary. Recent storms turned the ... Read More
Dear Friends of Return to Freedom,
Life is always busy here at Return to Freedom’s headquarters on California’s Central Coast.
In 2016, we became aware of a sanctuary in the Midwest in desperate need of funds for hay. We worked with other sanctuaries to have hay delivered.
Not even two months later, we received ... Read More
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