The American Wild Horse Campaign has filed a notice of appeal of decision authorizing the roundup and permanent removal of 733 wild horses from the Sand Wash Basin in Colorado.
'This drastic action to use helicopters to capture 783 federally-protected wild horses in Colorado's Sand Wash Basin will decimate the state's most high profile and popular wild horse herd, said Colorado native Ellie Phipps Price
BLM Agency's recent reforms will not stop this tax-subsidized slaughter pipeline for federally-protected wild horses and burros.
During the first half of 2021, a handful of lawmakers are emerging as friends of the horse industry, fighting for the sector on a variety of fronts.
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We cannot sit idly by while the Biden Administration remains silent as untold numbers of federally-protected wild horses and burros are sent to slaughter through a program that is subsidized by tax dollars.