Top 10 countries ranked by horses slaughtered and horse meat production – 2018

By JANE ALLIN MARCH AGAINST HORSE SLAUGHTER — Recall from the Introduction article in this series that the FAO stats are not always based on original datasets for countries included in their assessments. Missing values are a common problem for international datasets, stemming form countries’ non-responses to the data requests dispatched on a regular basis…

My saddlebags are packed, now where should I live?

Written by JENNY SHARP With the world economic climate as it is, things are looking grim for horses, worldwide. Even traditionally horse-friendly countries like Ireland and Spain are seeing an increasingly large number of horses suffering because of the economic downturn. Where previously horses were part of everyday life, they are now becoming a financial…

Wild horses in Mongolia captured in stunning pictures

Cross-posted from the Daily Mail (UK) Galloping across the snowy steppe, stunning pictures of the wild horses of Mongolia descended from the stables of Genghis Khan Not even wild horses could drag Chinese photographer Li Gang away from the frozen beauty of Outer Mongolia. In temperatures of minus 30 degrees he took these photographs of…