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Raise Your Voice to Save Wild Horses and Burros

Raise Your Voice to Save Wild Horses and Burros

Thanks to strong action by people concerned about animals, the 2018 spending bill passed by Congress retains federal bans against destroying or selling to slaughter tens of thousands of cherished wild horses and burros. Sadly, the threat still hangs over their heads. Silence is not an option.

The Trump Administration budget for the 2019 fiscal year requests the same cruel, untenable program as the one just defeated. Congress must pass the new spending plan by September. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is reportedly rushing to present a plan to “euthanize” captive and free-roaming horses and burros and to facilitate moving them into the slaughter pipeline. The BLM is now being run by Brian Steed, former Chief of Staff of the horse-hating Representative Chris Stewart (R-Utah), who authored the 2018 killing plan.

The BLM wants to reduce the herds to 26,000, the same level considered so close to extinction that Congress unanimously passed the Wild Horse Act in 1971 to prevent wild horses and burros from “fast disappearing from the West.” The Agency thinks it can fool Americans into believing that overpopulating wild horses are destroying public lands. In fact, it’s millions of cows and sheep together with oil drilling and mining operations that are degrading those lands. Since 1971, the Department of Interior has reduced wild horse and burro herd areas by over 40 percent and moved millions more acres into the hands of private commercial interests.

In Defense of Animals and more than 100 organizations have joined forces to present a humane, cost-effective plan to protect wild horses and burros on their historic rangelands.  Now’s the time to let members of Congress know we are united against horse slaughter.

Contact your two United States senators and your one representative and keep up the pressure. Tell them we want stronger protections for America’s wild horses and the land they stand on. They are not a taxpayer burden; they are our national treasures!

If you don’t know who your federal legislators are, you can look them up, and find their contact info at the link below. Put in your zip code and then choose the Federal tab.:

www.idausa.org/findmyrep

You can simply say, “I want stronger protections for America’s wild horses and burros and the land they stand on. They are not a taxpayer burden; they are our national treasures!”

Thank you for caring and making the calls needed to save their lives

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