New-found freedom for rescued wild horses
Two years later staging i of the largest wild Equus caballus rescues inwards history, vineyard possessor Ellie Price has given the rescued mustangs liberty too a novel home.
Price, a wild fauna advocate too possessor of the famous Durell Vineyard, was introduce to witness the happy goal of a long journey.
Price looked on inwards anticipation equally 115 mustangs, rescued inwards 2010 from a livestock auction inwards Fallon, Nevada, too housed inwards leased feedlots always since, took their commencement tentative steps towards freedom.
The horses were released into the wild at the novel Montgomery Creek Ranch, a 2000-acre wild fauna refuge established past times Price simply exterior of Willows, California.
Ranch director Mike Holmes, who has overseen the aid of the horses since their rescue, volition reside onsite to ensure the continued wellness too security of these too hereafter wild horses too other animals released to the refuge.
Over time, Price plans to piece of job inwards concert alongside nearby ranchers too landowners to brand Montgomery Creek an agriculturally sustainable too biologically various habitat for wild horses too other local wildlife.
“These wonderful horses convey brought keen joy to my life, too the sense of releasing them into the wild was deeply gratifying,” says Price, who is working closely alongside the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign to heighten awareness.
“I convey been profoundly inspired past times the animate existence welfare advocates who piece of job on the forepart lines to promote the run of humane too sustainable practices. I am fortunate to convey the resources to relieve these item horses, but at that topographic point is too hence much to a greater extent than nosotros demand to produce to protect wild horses too other threatened wildlife.
“That’s why groups similar Wild Horse Preservation actually demand our help.
“While I am grateful that I was able to assist these horses, rescue too re-homing is non an ideal or sustainable solution to wild Equus caballus management,” Price said.
“That’s why I’m working alongside the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign to encourage the Bureau of Land Management to run nativity command vaccines to deal herd populations too maintain wild horses inwards the wild where they belong. It’s the virtually humane and, inwards the long run, cost-effective means to deal wild horses on the gain – too hence that both they too nosotros tin overstep on to bask their freedom.”
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