Advocacy group calls for end to roundups
The advocacy grouping Protect Mustangs is calling for an destination to roundups of wild horses, on the 8th anniversary of the outset National Day of the Horse.
The California-based conservation grouping is circulating a Change.org petition to Congress inwards a bid to de-fund in addition to halt the roundups.
“Enough is enough!” the group’s executive director, Anne Novak, says.
“If they weren’t rounded upward at the hands of the BLM in addition to then those wild horses at Owyhee in addition to other ranges for certain would non last dead now. We desire the roundups to stop, the warehousing to stop, the financial irresponsibility to stop, the bad scientific discipline to halt in addition to nosotros are bespeak for an accurate independent census of how many wild horses are left on the range.”
Today, nearly 50,000 wild horses are held inwards regime brusk or long-term asset facilities, amongst alone an estimated 20,000 remaining inwards the wild.
In the 1900s, ii 1 thou k wild horses roamed inwards America. Afterwards the wild Equus caballus population dropped to a greater extent than oft than non due to hunting for their meat.
Novak continues: “Today, amongst the populace province choose handgrip of for H2O rights, unloosen energy evolution in addition to mining projects, the wild Equus caballus is facing a huge monster called greed.
“It’s non sustainable to wipe them out. Native wild horses tin contrary desertification, offset carbon emissions in addition to heal the land. We demand our wild horses to help halt global warming.”
In 2004, Congress recognized the outset official National Day of the Horse.
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