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Feb 2022
“What in the world are they building?” When we found her on that cold winter morning, she was laying in the weed-filled ditch, struggling to keep her head out of the muddy water. She was exhausted, her body temperature far too low, as close to death...
Wildlife ecologist and champion of wild horses Craig C. Downer is fronting a new documentary showing the positive contributions that wild horses and burros make to ecosystems. Over the years Downer has been fighting to protect wild horses and burros from elimination on the...
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Oct 2019
Acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley told the Society of Environmental Journalists in Colorado on Friday that wild horses were the biggest problem facing federal public lands in the West. The silliness of this statement becomes obvious when one considers that wild horses don’t exist on...
“Rebecca is Superwoman,” says Barbara Mackey, Habitat for Horses board member and founder of the Bill and Barbara Mackey Foundation for Animal Welfare, run by the Greater Houston Community Foundation. “She is so tenacious, no matter what obstacles come up. She is there 24/7....
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Jun 2019
We fought a lot of battles these last few years, and we brought a lot of horses, donkeys and a mule or two back into a good life. We also made a lot of friends, shared a lot of tears and laughter and spent a...
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May 2019
Opinion by Jerry Finch co-authored with Allen Warren In the last couple of weeks, the world of wild horses has been thrown into a state of turmoil. The two national humane societies, ASPCA and HSUS, along with Return to Freedom and a few others, joined in with...
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Jan 2019
Call your Representatives and tell them to cosponsor the SAFE Act, H.R. 875. From The Humane Society: The last horse slaughter plants in the United States closed years ago, and Congress has consistently voted to prohibit funding for horse slaughter inspections within U.S borders. Unfortunately, this does...
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Apr 2018
CANA Foundation Takes Major Advertisement in “The Hill” to Thank Members of Congress for Upholding Protections for Wild Horses Against Slaughter & Forms of Mass Killing (Habitat for Horses is a member of the CANA Foundation) To thank the Members of Congress who voted to uphold protections...
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Aug 2017
August 3, 2017 - Federal lawmakers have introduced legislation to prevent the establishment of inhumane horse slaughter operations within the U.S., end the current export of American horses for slaughter abroad and protect the public from consuming toxic horse meat. Senators Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Lindsey Graham,...