Press Release Groups Applaud Bipartisan Team of Lawmakers for Leadership to Protect America’s Wild Horses & Burros Washington, D.C. – The American Wild Horse Campaign, Animal Wellness Action, and the Animal Wellness Foundation applauded the House Rules Committee for advancing a bipartisan amendment, championed by U.S. Representatives Steve Cohen (D-TN), Dina Titus (D-NV), Raul Grijalva … Read more
Press Release Advocacy groups push for House floor amendment to allocate $11 million of the current budget to PZP birth control to humanely manage wild horse and burro populations, Curbing Amount Spent on Roundups and Incarceration Washington, D.C. — Today, the American Wild Horse Campaign, Animal Wellness Action, and the Animal Wellness Foundation applauded the … Read more
Press Release grace@americanwildhorsecampaign.org Washington, D.C. — Today, two of the nation’s leading wild horse protection and humane organizations expressed disappointment with the U.S. House Appropriations Committee’s decision this morning to approve Fiscal Year 2021 Interior appropriations legislation giving the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) $102 million for its wild horse and burro program. In a … Read more
Free-roaming wild horses and burros have never faced a greater threat if you read the long-term plan for management of these animals released to Congress by the Bureau of Land Management this week. Here are its key features: Is this anything but a corrupt, massive depopulation plan, a prescription for terror for hundreds of bands … Read more
New Report Outlines Mass Roundup Plan that Will Result in Fiscal Ruin and the Destruction of America’s Wild Horse & Burro Herds Washington, D.C. — A surge in funding — $21 million of additional taxpayer dollars for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Management Program — will be used for the removal of 20,000-30,000 wild … Read more
Fighting a Diabolical Government Plan to Round Up Tens of Thousands of Wild Horses and Burros Our iconic American wild horses face an existential threat from the Bureau of Land Management and its excessive focus on round-ups and removals and its inattention to fertility control. In 2020, the agency may attempt to round-up and remove … Read more
Washington, D.C. – The Congress is poised to pass a massive Fiscal Year 2020 spending package with a series of pro-animal provisions, many pushed by Animal Wellness Action, the Animal Wellness Foundation, and other animal welfare organizations. The House should vote on the $1.4 trillion measure today, and the Senate is expected to follow suit and … Read more
Washington, D.C. – U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and a bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote late yesterday to the chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate appropriations panels with oversight of the Department of the Interior (DOI) to urge funding limits and additional clarity on a dangerous and costly Bureau of Land Management … Read more
Lawmakers in Congress have a duty to examine the details of a dangerous proposal – hatched by the ASPCA, Humane Society of the U.S. and two agribusiness groups – to depopulate wild horses and burros from our public lands in the West. While we’re all drawn to the idea of compromise between groups that have long been … Read more
This week, the U.S. Senate passed a multi-agency spending bill, including funding for the Agriculture, Interior, Justice, and Transportation Departments. At Animal Wellness Action, we had some major victories, but the Senate funded a proposal by two leading animal welfare groups that would translate into mass round-ups of wild horses and burros, perhaps more than … Read more