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In Defense of Animals write: In 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) instituted the Adoption Incentive Program (AIP), which pays individuals $1000 per animal to “adopt” wild horses who the Bureau had previously cruelly captured from our public lands using our tax dollars. Unfortunately, it has now been proven that some people take… Continue reading Take action with IDA against the Government’s Adopt N’ Kill Wild Horse Program
FINAL HEARING SET In Defense of Animals et al v United States Department of the Interior et al PLEASE NOTE: UPDATED DATE AND TIME Friday, February 24, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. U.S. Federal Courthouse, Eastern District of California 501 I Street Courtroom #7 (14th Floor Judge Morrison England Jr.) Sacramento, California http://www.caed.uscourts.gov Rachel Fazio, acting… Continue reading Hearing in IDA’s Twin Peaks lawsuit set for February 24th
Reported by the Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — (April 20, 2011) Horse protection advocates have claimed a rare legal victory as part of a larger effort to end federal roundups of free-roaming mustangs on public lands in the western United States. A federal judge in Sacramento ruled on Wednesday that In Defense of Animals… Continue reading US judge denies BLM bid to dismiss wild horse lawsuit
Two lawsuits have been filed against the Bureau of Land Management alleging mishandling of the Wild Horse and Burro Program, in particular questioning the timing and conduct of the current gather underway in the Elko District of Nevada. In Defense of Animals has this to say about the lawsuit they filed with reknown ecologist Craig… Continue reading Lawsuits filed as advocates seek to halt wild horse roundup
Cross-posted from the Nevada Sun ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 24, 2010 A federal judge Monday officially dismissed a lawsuit brought by animal rights activists over a big wild horse roundup in northern Nevada, saying the case was moot and plaintiffs lacked standing. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington, D.C., who in December denied… Continue reading Wild horses: Calico roundup case dismissed
Cross-posted from The Daily Record | March 8, 2010 WASHINGTON - Americans were outraged two years ago when federal officials threatened to kill more than 10,000 wild mustangs running free throughout the West. So when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced last fall that the Obama administration had no intention of carrying out the Bush administration's… Continue reading Wild horse controversy heads back to federal court
Attorney Bill Spriggs to File Second Lawsuit to Stop Inhumane Horse Roundups Cross-posted from Horseback Magazine via The Desert Independent By Robert WINKLER | The Desert Independent | February 5, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC plans to file a lawsuit on Monday, February 8, to keep the Bureau of Land Management… Continue reading BLM faces yet another lawsuit in its wild horse capture plan
Source: Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Neda DeMayo, Return To Freedom 805-735-3246, 805-588-5105 Media Alert Preservationists Decry Wild-Horse Roundups The Bureau of Land Management has begun rounding up more than 2500 wild horses from the Calico Complex in North Western Nevada, generating protests from both the public at large and animal advocate groups. Return… Continue reading Grassroots rally in Los Angeles to save wild horses
Mass roundup of Nevada Wild Horses Inhumane and Illegal, Suit Charges Washington, DC, Nov. 23, 2009 - In Defense of Animals (IDA) and ecologist Craig Downer today filed suit, in the federal U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to stop the Bureau of Land Management's proposed massive roundup and removal of more than… Continue reading Lawsuit filed to halt huge wild horse roundup (US)
Can anyone help observe the wild horse round-up in Oregon Sheldon Hart Wildlife Refuge this week and next? IDA is seeking humane observers and volunteers. Need videos and photographs. Here's further information and contacts from IDA: ----------------- Ignoring Public Plea, Government to Contract with Convicted Horse Thief to Round-up Wild Horses Lakeview, Oregon -- The… Continue reading Help Wanted: Observers in Oregon (Or)
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