Eleven-year-old goes into bat for America’s wild horses

Mustang flag alongside stars, yesteryear Youth Campaign Director Robin Warren.

Robin Warren, at 11, is already a passionate advocate for America’s wild horses.

Since joining the organisation, Protect Mustangs, inwards June equally its novel youth get director, Warren has met alongside a Nevada nation senator, documented wild horses on the range, was a featured speaker at the Stop the Roundups rally inwards California’s capitol, too gave oral comments at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) helicopter hearing, equally good inwards California.

At the hearing, Warren presented the BLM instance alongside her Petition to Save Wild Mustangs, asking the bureau to terminate helicopter roundups.

“We desire brutal helicopter roundups to terminate too nosotros desire to brand certain they ever accept access to build clean water,” she said.

She started the petition 3 years agone nether her pen cite Wild Mustang Robin. She was inspired to co-author the petition later reading “Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West”, yesteryear Marguerite Henry.

She has been active inwards her hometown, Las Vegas, too over the network to teach signatures.

After posting the petition online at Change.org she received signatures from l States, DC, Puerto Rico too and to a greater extent than than thirty countries.

At end week’s helicopter locomote hearing inwards Sacramento, she presented 2770 signatures from her petition to Amy Dumas, the bureau representative.

“Kids don’t desire to come across wild horses inwards zoos,”  Warren said. “We desire to discovery them roaming on the opened upward attain alongside their families.”

Warren’s spoken communication at the BLM helicopter-use hearing received a standing ovation from the audience.

“Robin speaks for the youth of America too touches people’s hearts across the nation,” says Anne Novak, executive manager for Protect Mustangs. “She wants the wild horses to locomote protected–not harassed too torn from their families forever.”

Warren’s petition reads:

“We, the undersigned, create respectfully asking that the Bureau of Land Management adhere to the same rules too regulations equally the full general populace inwards regards to the humane handling of wild horses too burros. We discovery it unreasonable that the Secretary of the Interior, the Bureau of Land Management, or whatever somebody or organization, is flora to locomote exempt from our collective responsibleness equally humans to process animals humanely. We farther discovery it unreasonable that the Secretaries of the Interior too Agriculture are permitted to define “humane” equally it pertains to their ain areas of command. We respectfully asking that the Free-Roaming Horses too Burros Act of 1971 locomote restored to its master copy intent, that no somebody or scheme would locomote permitted to capture wild horses too burros yesteryear agency of motorized vehicles, or yesteryear polluting or closing off watering holes, equally these methods accept been proven inhumane.”

 

 

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