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… 1,800 horses from the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program from 2008 to 2012, telling the BLM … the animals. Specifically, the agency failed to limit horse sales and ensure that horses went to good homes in …
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… select western states.  Dr. Karen Herman of Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary to evaluate refined PZP-22 fertility control vaccines for wild horses in New Mexico’s Carson National Forest to help …
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… Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which met in Panama City, … that, in some cases, is causing precipitous declines in wild populations.  There was grave concern prior to the … II to Appendix I due to unsustainable removals from the wild for pets, meat, and/or traditional medicines, resulting …
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… EARTH A New Wild is an upcoming series that will air on PBS and document … a five-year, global journey, capturing encounters between wild animals and the people who live and work among them. The … to get a first-hand perspective on what EARTH A New Wild will offer viewers. AWI: What inspired the series? Dr. …
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… not allow horsemeat to be imported for human consumption. Horse slaughter facilities cannot legally operate in the United States, but footage and images from horse slaughterhouses around the world have revealed horrific … not have a policy that specifically addresses threats to wild or domestic equines. “Shoppers look to Etsy to find …
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… Titus (D-NV) and David Schweikert (R-AZ) reintroduced the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act (HR 3656) , a bill to prohibit … the inhumane and expensive use of helicopters to round up wild equines from the range. In June, Reps. Jared Huffman …
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… on deer, horses, and donkeys to squirrels, kangaroos, wild boars, elephants, and more. The need for diverse … when studying oral delivery of fertility control to wild boars in Texas, the delivery device must discriminate … populations. As human settlements encroach further into wild ecosystems, we will continue to see an increase in …
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… Land Management (BLM), the agency in charge of protecting wild horses, has been rounding them up at an alarming rate, supposedly for their own good. Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild. Something is wrong with that, so we must act now before …
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… of horseshoe crab bleedings and outcomes, “It’s the Wild West for the biomedical industry.”  The continued …
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… with her cat, Meatloaf—a polydactyl tortie—and her retired horse, Chandler. She loves to get out and enjoy the outdoors … policies to protect marine mammals in captivity and in the wild and to reform the USDA Wildlife Services program. Ericca … and legislative advocacy pertaining to horses—both wild and domestic. She also lobbies on our farmed animal …
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… of thousands of horseshoe crabs are taken from the wild and drained of nearly a third of their blood to create a … and medical devices. The animals are returned to the wild, but the debilitating procedure ultimately results in …
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… They are captured from the wild, piled inside plastic bins, and hauled into labs where …
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… various successful projects—including those involving wild horses at Assateague Island National Seashore, and … immunocontraception violates the reproductive rights of wild animals. They argue that the use of contraception on …
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… In a Land of Awe: Finding Reverence in the Search for Wild Horses offers a sweeping vista of the wild horses that the author has come to know and cherish, … moved to eliminate millions of acres of designated wild horse habitat in the Cowboy State in deference to private …
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… of Land Management (BLM), who asked if he could prevent wild horses from reproducing. Over time, particularly after witnessing the brutality of wild horse roundups, Jay became an outspoken critic of the BLM’s …
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… proposal by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and their Wild Horse Advisory board to euthanize up to 33,000 wild horses, several leaders in the US House of …
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… a vote: one that would prohibit the USDA from inspecting horse slaughter plants (without which, they cannot operate in interstate commerce) and one to ban the killing of wild horses and burros as a means of population control. …
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There were stuffed tigers standing at the entrance of the 13,000-square-foot warehouse. Large plastic trash bags filled with thousands upon thousands of dead, dried seahorses sat slumped in the aisle.

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… “This bill does not reflect Americans’ love for our wild spaces and species and is a dangerously irresponsible … whales, North Atlantic right whales, or Rice’s whales Wild Horses and Burros On a positive note, the bill and an … report include some beneficial language pertaining to wild horse and burro management. Importantly, the bill continues …
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… Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Animals Committee (AC33). From … in order to, among other things, prevent the laundering of wild-caught specimens as captive-bred. At AC33, the committee …
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… struggle of one local community to preserve an isolated wild horse herd on the Wyoming/Montana border. Even before passage of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, the efforts …
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… The unnecessary removal of wild horses has reached an alarming rate under the current … Salazar questioned the recent tragic deaths of several wild horses and focused on the dire need for an independent analysis of the wild horse and burro program by the National Academy of Sciences …
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… in a multitude of species, including white-tailed deer and wild horses, the USDA has spent substantial funds on the … a single-shot of the vaccine. However, when tested in the wild, the efficacy of GonaCon TM declines substantially. … altered to boost the duration of effectiveness in wild horse and white-tailed deer populations. Scientists—including …
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… year. It is intended to restore protections for America’s wild horses and burros that were stripped out of the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act in recent years. … enthusiasm from the public and within the humane and wild horse advocacy community. Passage of the ROAM Act will mean …
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… the ESA to help save the red wolf from extinction in the wild and champion greater protections for critically … Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which the United States … Wildlife Services program, and to protest wild horse and burro roundups. The current administration has …
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