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Animal Rights Extremists

Exploding feral horse population leaves BLM with staggeringly expensive problems

May 19, 2020 0

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 animals in off-range facilities, which costs $50 million a year in maintenance. Derek Draplin The Center…

Animal Rights Extremists

Feral horses and burros pose “existential threat” to western rangelands

February 4, 2020 0

When managed wisely, wild horses and burros can thrive in the American West. However, left uncontrolled, herds quickly overpopulate their habitat, overgraze the land and decimate the fragile desert spring ecosystems critical to their survival and that of other species.…

In the Courts

Judge sides with activists who claim feral horses are in danger of extinction

January 25, 2020 0

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 in Montana as threatened or endangered, a federal judge said Tuesday. Cathy Valenti Courthouse News Service…

Environment

Environment research group supports a market-based solution to the feral horse crisis

December 23, 2019 1

Wild horse and burro populations have skyrocketed and are now more than triple the size that our public landscapes can sustain. On the range, these animals compete for water and forage with other wildlife. The result is that there are…

Animal Rights Extremists

Australia’s feral horse crisis mirrors that of the American west

December 18, 2019 0

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 face starvation when the region next burns. This is predictable, inevitable and tragically also completely avoidable had effective…

Animal Rights Extremists

The Feral Horse Crisis: Sterilization or Starvation?

November 4, 2019 1

...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 and burros on federal rangelands are three times the number considered sustainable. In some cases, they're…

Bureau of Land Management

Make comments now supporting BLM spayed wild mare feasibility study

May 23, 2019 2

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 there are three times more horses on the land than it can sustain. It is in…

Animal Rights Extremists

Feds will pay people $1,000 to adopt untrained wild horses and burros

March 21, 2019 0

“Given the extensive overpopulation, wild horses and burros routinely face starvation and death from lack of water. The high number of excess wild horses and burros causes habitat damage that forces animals to leave public lands and travel onto private…

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