Wild Horse Alerts & News

Wyoming has a series of huge roundups scheduled for this year, starting with the Little Colorado and the White Mountain Herds, and then continuing with Great Divide Basin Herd.  These three herd areas are on vast tracts of land, with almost 3 million acres total between the three areas, and yet the BLM is proposing …

The BLM has released its Environmental Assessment for the Great Divide Basin Area which is a wild horse management area near Rock Springs, Wyoming.  The BLM estimates that there are currently 1700 horses in this area, and they plan to remove 1225 wild horses this summer.  Please send comments about the destruction of yet another …

Please share this video on YouTube with a a passionate plea from Madeleine Pickens to Oprah with many other celebreties, and footage of the horses in the wild and at roundups and holding pens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-klWJoM-MH4

Wyoming has the second most wild horses in the country, after Nevada.  Now the Wyoming horses are under fire again from the BLM. In October and November of last year, over 2100 wild horses were removed from the Adobe Town and Salt Wells Herd areas in Wyoming. Last month the BLM announced plans to remove …

The 2011 budget that was just approved in Congress gives the BLM enough funds to meet its funding needs for the Wild Horse and Burro Program – this means they will start rounding up and removing wild horses again this July, with a goal of removing over 10,000 wild horse this year despite all the …

This excellent piece just in from Laura Allen at Animal Law Coalition – please pass this on and write and call before April 8: “It is no secret that BLM’s program for the wild horses and burros is to round them up, remove them from the range and warehouse them in holding facilities. What is …

The BLM announced that it will release 10 mares, all treated with birth control and 11 mules and 1 burro to the Twin Peaks Herd Area in northern California.  This is after the decimation of the herd last summer, when the BLM removed 1700 horses.  Here is the full story: http://rtfitch.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/obama%E2%80%99s-blm-to-return-10-wild-horses-after-stealing-1700/

This just in from R.T. Fitch: “Laura Leigh launches WildHorseEducation.org. The purpose of this new organization is to provide information to the public and to other wild horse and burro advocacy groups. This will be accomplished through documentation and distribution of material related to the care of wild herds on public land and subsequent care …

Washington, D.C. — The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is honored to announce the exclusive release of the Rolling Stones classic “Wild Horses” – performed and produced by the legendary Willie Nelson and his family members. Willie & The Nelson Family are donating the proceeds from the sale of the song to AWI’s campaigns on behalf …

Soon to be free at last! The sale and rescue of wild horses from Adobe Town that have been held at the BLM’s Canon City holding facility since October has finally been approved through the tireless efforts of Sandra Longley. 11 older stallions and 24 older mares (some of whom who will be foaling soon) …