May 19, 2020 Exploding feral horse population leaves BLM with staggeringly expensive problems For each animal the agency is able to place in private care, it sees $24,000 in holdings. The BLM says it has around 50,000…
February 4, 2020 Feral horses and burros pose “existential threat” to western rangelands When managed wisely, wild horses and burros can thrive in the American West. However, left uncontrolled, herds quickly overpopulate their habitat, overgraze the land…
January 25, 2020 Judge sides with activists who claim feral horses are in danger of extinction The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erred when it rejected a petition by an international advocacy group to list a population of wild horses…
December 23, 2019 Environment research group supports a market-based solution to the feral horse crisis Wild horse and burro populations have skyrocketed and are now more than triple the size that our public landscapes can sustain. On the range,…
December 18, 2019 Australia’s feral horse crisis mirrors that of the American west With an estimated 25,318 feral horses distributed across the surveyed area (more than 7,400 square kilometres) of the Australian Alps, many thousands of horses will…
November 4, 2019 The Feral Horse Crisis: Sterilization or Starvation? …Tom Lenz, a veterinarian on the advisory board, argued that research into the procedure is scientifically and medically valid, as the 88,000 wild horses…
May 23, 2019 Make comments now supporting BLM spayed wild mare feasibility study The BLM reports (as of March 2018) that there are over 80,000 wild horses on American rangelands. The AML is 27,000, which means that…
March 21, 2019 Feds will pay people $1,000 to adopt untrained wild horses and burros “Given the extensive overpopulation, wild horses and burros routinely face starvation and death from lack of water. The high number of excess wild horses…
