Wild Horses of NC Outer Banks Survive Hurricane Irene

Report by Corolla Wild Horse Fund Director Karen McCalpin Corolla horses the day after Hurricane Irene blew through North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Photo by Karen McCalpin, August 30, 2011 The wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs of Corolla weathered the recent hurricane that tore through the East Coast exceptionally well, as their ancestors have done for centuries. [...]

Majority of Wyoming’s Wild Horses to be Culled

By Ashley Featherman on Wed, 08/31/2011 – 9:35am Last week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) launched roundup plans for 700 wild horses from two of Wyoming’s free-ranging herds. Backing ranching and business interests, the BLM intends to cull nearly 70% of Sweetwater County’s herds to support what advocates are calling an ecologically responsible [...]

Humane Society to Airlift Wild Donkeys as Part of Rescue, Rehoming Effort

You can help the wild donkeys from Hawaii by donating land, volunteering or even adopting one. From My Horse Daily – view online here. After being rounded up, a herd of wild donkeys awaits treatment at a veterinary clinic at the Waikii Ranch in Kamuela, Hawaii. | Photo by Eugene Tanner/ The HSUS  More than [...]

Help protect Cloud’s herd – foundation

August 29, 2011 The Horse.com The Cloud Foundation is urging the public to get behind efforts to stop federal plans to reduce the size of one of the most famous wild horse herds in the United States. The mustang stallion Cloud. The herd was made famous by the PBS documentaries featuring the pale palomino stallion, [...]

Lawsuit filed over handling of wild horses

August 26, 2011 Horsetalk.co.nz US wild horse advocates have filed a lawsuit questioning whether the Bureau of Land Mangement’s gathers amount to humane treatment. The Wild Horse Freedom Federation (WHFF) filed a lawsuit and an application for a temporary restraining order against the bureau in Federal Court in Reno, Nevada on Wednesday. The federation said [...]

CNN’s Jane Velez Mitchell Exposes Cruelty at BLM Triple B Roundups

Madeleine Pickens interviewed; video from Laura Leigh, onsite observer, broadcast. Must see video!

Horses displaced by fire up for adoption

AWHPC Note: In the summer of 2010, the BLM rounded up all the wild horses (196) from the Saylor Creek Herd Management Area in Idaho after a wildfire. Despite receiving over 3,500 public comments urging the return of all horses to the range after it had regenerated, the BLM has decided to return just 30 [...]

Comments Needed for Protection of Wild Horses on Forest Service Lands in California

THE COMMENT PERIOD FOR THIS ACTION IS NOW CLOSED. Please Act by August 30! The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is asking the public to submit comments on revisions to the management plan for wild horses in the Devils Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory, which is located in northeastern California (near Alturas). Once finalized, this management [...]

Week 4: Triple B Complex Roundup

BLM Contractor “Sun J” Exhibits Brutality Towards Wild Horses Week 1 Updates Week 2 Updates Week 3 Updates **AWHPC Eyewitness Reports   Week 4 Report by AWHPC’s Deniz Bolbol  follows here. Deniz’ onsite observations made possible through a generous grant from the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Day 19: August [...]

Triple B Complex Wild Horse Roundup (July 20 – September 2011)

Weekly Reports Week 1  (July 20-26) Week 2 (July 27-31) Week 3 (August 1-6)       **AWHPC Eyewitness Reports Week 4 (August 7-13) coming soon   The Triple B Complex wild horse roundup is the largest roundup scheduled for the summer of 2011. During this six to seven week roundup, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management [...]

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