December 10, 2020 – Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation today filed suit in federal court in California to halt a Bureau of Land Management plan to surgically sterilize wild mares using a procedure that is dangerous, inhumane, and an unnecessary risk especially when proven, well-studied and previously utilized modes of alternative fertility control exist. […]
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Reward to Locate Burro Killers Now $100,000
Oct. 17, 2019 – The reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting deaths of 46 wild burros in California has grown to $100,000, following a $32,000 pledge from the Roy Dunlap Foundation. Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call (800) 782-7463 or visit http://www.wetip.com. Callers may remain anonymous […]
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Coalition Announces Support for Proposal on Non-Lethal and Humane Care of Wild Horses and Burros
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2019 –The ASPCA®(The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®), Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Humane Society Legislative Fund, in concert with rangeland management stakeholders, today announced their support for a proposal on the care of wild horses and burros on […]
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Wild Horse Advocates Credit BLM for Sales Policy Change
March 14, 2019 – Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation today credited the Bureau of Land Management for rescinding a 2018 wild horse and burro sales policy change that opened the door even wider for kill buyers to purchase these horses en masse for slaughter. The 2018 change had allowed a single buyer to purchase […]
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Return to Freedom Rips Advisory Board for Urging BLM to Kill Thousands of Wild Horses
Oct. 20, 2017 – On Thursday, the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board recklessly voted to approve recommendations that call on the Bureau of Land Management to shoot tens of thousands of healthy wild horses and burros. At its meeting in Grand Junction, Colo., the advisory board recommended that BLM achieve its on-range population […]
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Bipartisan House Amendment Would Restore Wild Horse Protections
Aug. 25, 2017 – Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, Peter King, R-New York, and Jared Polis, D-Colorado, on Thursday filed an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill that would restore protections for wild horses and burros. It comes in response to the July 19 passage, by House Appropriations Committee voice vote, of an amendment by Rep. […]
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Senate Committee Rejects Horse Slaughter, Sets Up Key Vote on Wild Horses
July 20, 2017 – Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation on Thursday commended the Senate Appropriations Committee for approving, on a voice vote, an amendment keeping alive the effort to prevent the cruel and costly industry of horse slaughter from returning to the United States. “With today’s bipartisan vote against horse slaughter, the Senate Appropriations […]
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Gov. Bill Richardson: Congress Should Reject Slaughter, Threats to Wild Horses
July 14, 2017 – Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation and former New Mexico governor and United States ambassador Bill Richardson on Thursday urged Congress not to turn back the clock to an age of killing wild horses and of horse slaughter. “It’s wrong to slaughter horses,” Richardson said. “It’s not something that the American […]
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Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board recklessly recommends euthanasia for tens of thousands captive wild horses
September 12, 2016 – Return to Freedom Wild Horse Sanctuary and Preservation condemns the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board recommendation, made on Friday, urging the Bureau of Land Management to use euthanasia to reduce the number of so-called “unadoptable” wild horses and burros in BLM’s long-term holding facilities. At their two-day meeting in […]