1) Designer Donna Karan, left, with RTF representative Annie Finch. 2) From left: Gabby Karan Defelice with her daughter and Adoption Day co-host Stefania Defelice, her mother, Donna Karan, Valeri Angelo of the EQUUS Foundation, and co-host Jill Rappaport. 3) Rappaport with young horse lovers.
Thank you to the many horse lovers who this week welcomed Return to Freedom back to The Hampton Classic, one of the largest horse shows in the United States!
We’re grateful to our friend Annie Finch for representing us on Horse Welfare and Animal Adoption Day in Bridgehampton, N.Y.
Presented by the EQUUS Foundation and sponsored by Georgina Bloomberg, Adoption Day includes horse rescue groups as well as dog and cat shelters.
We participated as part of the EQUUS Foundation Alliance. We’re grateful to the foundation for its shared dedication to protecting all of America’s horses.
The event gave us with a chance to speak about advocating for more humane wild horse management and the need to ban the export of domestic and wild horses to foreign slaughterhouses.
We found that those in attendance were alarmed to learn about the challenges wild horses still face and eager to help.
The federal Bureau of Land Management oversees an agency-estimated 73,000 wild horses and burros and the U.S. Forest Service about 8,000 more in 10 Western states.
Both agencies have for decades tried and failed to meet the population goals that they’ve set through capture and removal in helicopter roundups, rather than by using proven, safe and humane fertility control to stabilize herd growth.
As a result, 62,000+ wild horses and burros now languish in off-range government corrals or on leased pastures, not on their home ranges.
Horses and burros that the government adopts out or sells are placed at risk of suffering and dying in a foreign slaughter pipeline that Congress has yet to close down.
Ways to help wild horses
Donate or Sponsor a Horse to support the care of nearly 500 rescued wild horses and burros at our American Wild Horse Sanctuary
Give to our Wild Horse Defense Fund to support our lobbying, grassroots advocacy and selective litigation
Subscribe to receive our action alerts and e-newsletter about wild horses and burros at our sanctuary and on the range
Would you like for us to speak about our work to your group or attend a horse show in your area? Reach out to us!