Wild Horses in USA

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is in the process of updating the Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the Winnemucca District in Northwestern Nevada. This document will determine management policies for 8.5 million acres of public land and for 20 Herd Management Areas, affecting thousands of federally-protected mustangs and burros. … [Read more...] about USA: American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign: TAKE ACTION BY MONDAY (Oct. 25): Be a Voice for 1000’s of Nevada Mustangs

Thanks to the documentary efforts of wild horse advocate and videographer Elyse Gardner, we now have graphic evidence of the lengths to which the BLM and its hired helicopter contractor will go to intimidate and capture fear-stricken wild horses. Continue Reading … [Read more...] about USA: Maureen Harmonay: Video shows colt pushed by helicopter skids during Twin Peaks wild horse roundup

The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to round up and permanently remove 1,659 wild horses from the Antelope Complex in northeast Nevada which emcompasses more than 1.3 million acres and four herd management areas (HMAs): Antelope, Antelope Valley, Goshute, and Spruce-Pequop. Another 50 horses living outside the borders of the Antelope Complex will … [Read more...] about USA: Oct 21, 2010 – Oppose Roundup of 1,659 Nevada Mustangs in Antelope Complex

Cloud the Stallion: Protests Nationwide for wild horses & two Colorado events with Ginger Kathrens Ginger Kathrens, Director of the Cloud Foundation and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, will give two presentations in Colorado this November- please spread the word and for those who can come, look forward to seeing you soon. Continue Reading … [Read more...] about USA: Oct 22, 2010 – The Cloud Foundation: Protests Nationwide & Two Colorado Events

By brandon loomis Federal wild-horse managers are suspending adoptions from their Herriman center and placing a quarantine on about 500 animals because of an equine-distemper outbreak. Eleven horses have died - some on their own and some from euthanasia after being badly stricken - and two- or three-dozen more show signs of the upper-respiratory infection, said Gus Warr, … [Read more...] about USA: Oct 19, 2010 – Distemper outbreak kills wild horses at Herriman center