Calls Urgently Needed to House to Ban on Hauling Horses in Double-Deck Trailers

At long last, the U.S. House of Representatives is poised to consider a ban on the use of trailers with more than one level for hauling horses. This week, the House is expected to take up consideration of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, H.R. 7. At present, language explicitly banning ALL hauling of [...]

Oppose Arizona Burro Removal & Castration Plan

The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Yuma, Arizona Field Office is seeking public comments on an Environmental Assessment for a massive burro roundup and removal plan. The agency plans to use helicopters to stampede and capture 400 wild burros in the Cibola-Trigo Herd Management Area (HMA) in southwestern Arizona and permanently remove 350 of them [...]

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

Agency Targeting Nearly 100 Wild Horses for Removal from Hardtrigger & Black Mountain Herd Management Areas

Please Ask Your Senators and Representative to Co-Sponsor the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act

Please Ask Your Senators and Representative to Co-Sponsor the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act   In November 2011, the five-year ban on domestic horse slaughter was lifted when Congress passed — and President Obama signed into law — the 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill that authorized federal funding for USDA inspections of horse meat. This devastating development [...]

Take Action to Protect Wyoming Mustangs: Submit Comments on Landers RMP Revisions

THE COMMENT DEADLINE IS NOW CLOSED. Opportunity to Protect the Herds in Seven Herd Management Areas at the Same Time!

Please Consider AWHPC for an End-of-Year Donation

In 2011, with a shoestring budget and a small staff, the AWHPC made a big impact for wild horses and burros–Please support our work.

Oppose Removal of 30 Horses from Cloud’s Herd in the Pryor Mountains

THE COMMENT DEADLINE IS NOW CLOSED. The Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (EA) on its proposed removal of 30 young wild horses (ages 1-3) from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, which is situated on the Montana/Wyoming border. This is the herd of the [...]

Please Oppose the Roundup & Removal of Burros From Nevada’s Bullfrog HMA

THE COMMENT DEADLINE IS NOW CLOSED. This Action Will Leave Behind Just 58 Burros on More than 237 Square Miles of Land

Please Urge the BLM to Suspend Removal of 79 Mustangs From WithIn & Outside of the Cedar & Onaqui Mts. HMAs

THE COMMENT DEADLINE IS NOW CLOSED. BLM is Also Considering an Alternative to Replace Wild Stallions with Geldings (Again) The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is proposing a “capture, treat and release” (CTR) roundup with the removal of at least 79 horses from 625-square-miles of public lands in the Cedar Mountain and Onaqui Herd Management [...]

Please Oppose the BLM’s Proposal Roundup in the Stone Cabin, Nevada HMA

THE COMMENT DEADLINE IS NOW CLOSED. BLM Outlines Its Plan to Remove Hundreds of Horses and Potentially Replace Wild Stallions with Geldings: Comments Are Due by November 29, 2011

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