Horse Domestication Happened Across Eurasia, Study Shows

There’s no question that horses have helped shape human history, but experts continue to debate the origins of human-equine cooperation. A new DNA study suggests that different groups of people across Europe and Asia independently domesticated horses starting 10,000 years ago. Horses have left their stamp on many aspects of human history, from transportation and [...]

Book Exposes Elimination of America’s Wild Horses

Environment News Service MINDEN, Nevada, January 27, 2012 (ENS) – Wildlife expert, author and ENS contributor Craig Downer has published a new book that he says, “fully justifies America’s magnificent wild horses and burros while countering the biased machinations against them.” “The Wild Horse Conspiracy” presents new evidence concerning the history and evolution of wild [...]

US judge denies bid to block NV mustang roundups

RENO, Nev.—A federal judge in Nevada who handed horse protection advocates a rare victory last fall has rejected their latest request to block government roundups of free-roaming mustangs in the West, saying they’ll have to go to Congress if they think the animals are being treated inhumanely and need more protection. U.S. District Judge Howard [...]

Wild horse advocates respond to editorial

Elko Daily Free Press, Tuesdy, January 24, 2012 It’s unfortunate that the Elko Daily Free Press editorial board, as outlined in the editorial board’s opinion piece “Nothing romantic about a wild gelding” published on Dec. 29, 2011, does not share the sentiments of millions of Americans who value having wild, free-roaming horses exhibiting natural behaviors [...]

Urge BLM to Cancel All Plans to Remove Idaho Mustangs from the Range

THE COMMENT PERIOD FOR THIS ALERT IS NOW CLOSED. Agency Targeting Nearly 100 Wild Horses for Removal from Hardtrigger & Black Mountain Herd Management Areas

Texas Burro Protest: All the Coverage

See all the news coverage of Texas burro advocates and their burros, marching on the state capitol to deliver 100,000 petition signatures urging a halt to the shooting of wild burros in Big Bend Ranch State Park. Austin American Statesman, “Protesters clomp to Capitol to oppose state’s feral burro policy” Texas Public Radio, “Donkey-Powered Protesters [...]

Donkey-Powered Protesters March on Texas Capitol

Words matter in life. And the case of the the wild donkeys of West Texas is no exception. If you call them “Wild Burros” you could be inclined to see them as scrappy survivors, emblems of the Old West. If you call them “Feral Donkeys,” well, then they sound like pests that need to be [...]

BURROS TO DELIVER 100,000 SIGNATURES TO GOVERNOR PERRY WEDNESDAY

***MEDIA ADVISORY*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2012 Burros led by local residents, the Wild Burro Protection League and Red Horse Nation, to ride to Capitol to deliver more than 100,000 signatures to Governor Perry on Wednesday.     AUSTIN, TX – A herd of burros, led by local residents, burro advocates and members of [...]

Start of wild-horse roundup near Reno delayed

RENO, Nev. (AP) — January 15, 2012 –  The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is postponing its plans to remove nearly 300 wild horses from the range near Reno. In a news release Sunday, agency officials said the roundup will be postponed until further notice due to unspecified “logistical delays.” In October, the BLM announced [...]

BLM not gelding stallions now in wild horse roundup, but doesn’t rule it out

Written by,Frank X. Mullen Reno Gazette Journal, January 15, 2012 Faced with legal action by wild horse advocates, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has backed off plans to castrate 200 stallions as part of a roundup of up to 1,000 mustangs 30 miles west of Ely, but the agency might geld wild stallions in [...]

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