What gave rise to research in utilizing fertility control for wild animal management? And whose idea was it to use it for wild horses?

It all makes for an incredible story, and the background may surprise you!

Please join us for “The Math of Mustangs: Stories of Fertility Control ” at 11 a.m. Pacific / 2 p.m. East on Aug. 12, part of Return to Freedom’s Informed Advocacy Webinar Series, as we delve into the story behind fertility control in zoo animals, wild horses and burros, and other wildlife.

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There is no cost to participate, but all donations go toward feeding the nearly 500 wild horses and burros at our American Wild Horse Sanctuary.

Speaker Kayla Grams has handled all manner of wildlife in the field and in conservation settings.  As the senior biologist at the Science and Conservation Center in Montana, she has also trained hundreds of people in how to prepare for and implement a wild horse fertility control program, and she has run the lab and manufactured the PZP immuno-contraceptive vaccine ZonaStat-H.

A nonprofit organization based in Montana, The Science and Conservation Center is the world’s foremost facility dedicated to research, development, distribution, and field-based application for the advancement of the humane control of wildlife populations through fertility control.

Since 1999, RTF has used non-hormonal, immuno-contraceptive fertility control to responsibly manage its numbers. It allows us to keep family bands together and maintain natural behaviors. RTF was the fourth large project in the world to use fertility control to manage horse populations.

RTF advocates for the use of fertility control on the range as a key tool that could be used to greatly reduce and eventually replace government management of wild horses by capture and removal.