American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign launches as independent non profit organization

Statement Regarding Launch of AWHPC as Independent Non-Profit Organization The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC) and Return to Freedom, the founding organization of AWHPC, are happy to announce the launch of AWHPC as an independent 501 C 3 nonprofit organization. AWHPC was created in 2004 by Return to Freedom to provide a unified voice…

Urgent Action Needed to Stop U.S. Government From Sterilizing Wild Horses in Idaho

Cross—posted from One Green Planet Conflict between the wild horse population and cattle ranchers runs rife across the western United States. Despite the fact that wild horses have roamed these plains for hundreds of years, the prospect of profit from expanding ranching operations have come at a high cost to wild horse territory. According to…

Senior Mustang Stallion Grulla #3907 robbed of his freedom by the BLM has died

The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign reports: We are heartbroken that we have to share some very tragic news with you. Grulla #3907, the senior stallion captured by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from the Sulphur Springs Herd Management Area in Utah earlier this year has died. He perished on July 28, 2015 at 4…

Wild horse destruction and the question of PZP

In an article by the Associated Press (via OregonLive.com) they report: RENO, Nevada — (AP) United in their belief wild horses should remain free to roam public rangeland across the West, groups working to protect the mustangs are increasingly at odds over whether contraception should play a role in the decades-old dispute over efforts to…

Death toll mounts from BLM wild horse roundup

Newly-Obtained Records Reveal At Least 75 Mustangs Died in Holding Pens After Capture from Wyoming Checkerboard AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN NEWS RELEASE Rock Springs, Wyoming (April 14, 2015) — Over 75 wild horses captured in Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) fall 2014 “Wyoming Checkerboard roundup” died in the days and months after capture, adding…

US Judge rejects Nevada coalition’s bid to dispose of excess Mustangs

Cross-posted from the Statesman Journal » RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit filed by a coalition of rural Nevada counties that wanted to force the government to sell or otherwise dispose of tens of thousands of mustangs in U.S. holding facilities. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno…

Coalition Reacts to BLM Wild Horse Roundup Schedule Released Yesterday

AWHPC PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 9, 2014) -- The American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign (AWHPC), a national coalition, today reacted to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) release of its 2014 wild horse and burro roundup schedule by using the agency’s own statistics to belie its claims that wild horses are overpopulating the…

Amid debate, eight wild horses captured in Iron County

‘Drop in the bucket’ effort comes as the BLM looks for funds — and ranchers sue — for a bigger roundup. By Kristen Moulton | The Salt Lake Tribune ► Link to Full Report The Bureau of Land Management on Monday removed eight wild horses from private land northwest of Cedar City, an Iron County…

National Coalition Calls on Utah Governor to Stop Attack on Wild Horses

THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE Salt Lake City, Utah (April 28, 2014) -- Today, representing millions of American citizens, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, a national coalition, its parent organization Return to Freedom, and its coalition partner The Cloud Foundation sent a letter to Utah Governor Gary Herbert (pdf) in response to his attack…

Groups sue US Forest Service over wild horses

Cross-posted from SFGate.com ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) — Animal advocates have filed a lawsuit to prevent the U.S. Forest Service from rounding up many of the remaining wild horses in California's Modoc National Forest. The plaintiffs said in a statement Monday that the government agency's plan to eliminate about 40 square miles of territory and reduce…