Federal Court Forces Interior Department to Consider Scientific Evidence Regarding Wild Horse Management

Judge Rejects Government Attempt to Ignore Expert Declarations on Negative Impacts of Plan to Castrate Wild Nevada Stallions For Immediate Release Washington, DC – May 10, 2012 – The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has rejected an attempt by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to withhold and ignore critical [...]

Thousands of Citizens Oppose Proposed BLM Burro Roundup in Southern California Desert

National Coalition Urges Agency to Allow Heritage Burros to Remain on the Land Where They’ve Lived for over a Century  Ridgecrest, CA (April 18, 2012) This week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received comments from over 4,100 members of the public opposing the planned roundup of burros from the historic Piute Mountain Herd [...]

Today: National Wild Horse Controversy Comes to Southern California at National Academy of Sciences Meeting in Irvine

Experts to Address NAS Review Panel about Government Mismanagement of America’s Disappearing Wild Horse Herds Irvine, California (Monday, March 19, 2012) … Today, Monday, March 19, at 3 p.m., wild horse experts will address a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel conducting a scientific review of the federal government’s Wild Horse and Burro Program at [...]

Just Say Whoa: BLM Urged to Save Tax Dollars, Cancel Proposed Wild Horse Roundup in Idaho’s Challis Mountains

National Coalition Urges Agency to Stop Removing and Stockpiling Wild Horses and Start Removing Destructive Cattle The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign and Western Watersheds Project call on BLM to cancel plans for 2nd roundup in three years in Challis, Idaho Herd Management Area and manage mustangs on the range instead. For Immediate Release Challis, [...]

Lawsuit Prompts U.S. Forest Service to Cancel Roundup of Wild Horses in Eastern Nevada

Capture of Horses in Monte Cristo Wild Horse Territory Dropped As Hotly-Contested BLM Pancake Complex Litigation Moves Forward  Washington, DC (February 14, 2012) The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) has agreed to cancel its plans to capture and remove 198 wild horses living in the Monte Cristo Wild Horse Territory (WHT) in eastern Nevada in exchange [...]

AWHPC Writes to BLM Director in Protest Over Appointment of Pro-Slaughter Cattlewoman to National Advisory Board

BLM accused of stacking board with representatives of special interests that stand to profit from the capture and slaughter of America’s wild horses. Read letter here.

Interior Department Stacks Federal Wild Horse Advisory Board with Representatives With Anti-Mustang Bias

 Majority of Americans Ignored as Government Announces Appointment of Representatives of Special Interests that Stand to Profit at Expense of America’s Icons View AWHPC’s letter to Bob Abbey here. Washington, DC (February 7, 2012). . . Today, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), a national coalition, issued a strong rebuke to the Interior Department’s [...]

Massive Federal Wild Horse Roundup Begins Tomorrow in Nevada: BLM Called Upon to Prevent Inhumane Treatment

Gov’t Urged To Take Preventive Measures to Protect Wild Horses from Dangerous Helicopter Flying, Sub-Freezing Temperatures and Unnecessarily Brutal Treatment Ely, Nevada (January 12, 2012) … As the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) launches another massive roundup of Nevada mustangs tomorrow, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), a national coalition of more than 45 [...]

BLM Postpones Its Radical Wild Horse Elimination and Castration Plan in Response to Federal Lawsuit

Environmental and Conservation Groups Fight To Stop Latest Government Plan to Destroy Wild Horse Herds Washington, DC (December 20, 2011) … Today, in response to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of environmental and wild horse advocacy groups, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has agreed to postpone its plans to “zero out” [...]

Environmental & Wild Horse Organizations File Federal Lawsuit on Eve of 40th Anniversary of Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act

Action Seeks to Block Interior Dept. Wild Horse Extermination and Castration Plan in Nevada UPDATES: 2/14/12: Lawsuit Prompts U.S. Forest Service to Cancel Roundup of Wild Horses in Eastern Nevada 12/21/11: BLM Postpones Its Radical Wild Horse Elimination and Castration Plan in Response to Federal Lawsuit News Coverage: 2/11/12: Pancake Complex horse roundup ending 1/3/12: [...]

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