UNACCEPTABLE: "Last month, AWHPC and Return to Freedom, joined by over 30,000 America citizens -- including 30 members of Congress and celebrities such as Robert Redford, Carole King, Ali MacGraw, Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, Noah Wylie, Wendie Malick, Betty White and Valerie Bertinelli -- in calling on Secretary Sally Jewell to step in to protect wild horses and reform the BLM program. Additionally, a recent poll on the issue showed that 72 percent of Americans support protecting wild horses and burros, and that support cuts across party and gender lines. The newly-released roundup schedule includes many “non-emergency” roundups, including the removal of up to 50 horses from the famed Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range in Colorado. According to AWHPC, this proposed roundup is a perfect example of the BLM’s refusal to properly implement fertility control. At the Book Cliffs, the BLM has only administered fertility control to approximately half of the breeding-age mares to purposefully allow breeding to continue, leading to the removal of horses. The agency has repeatedly stated its intent to continue the unsustainable approach of routine wild horse roundups instead of properly using humane fertility control to minimize removals to verifiable emergency situations only."
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:46:54 +0000
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