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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 …
Date created: December 16, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
… 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. …
Date created: December 11, 2014
Last updated: April 24, 2024
… 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 …
Date created: August 30, 2023
Last updated: April 17, 2024
… 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 …
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: January 4, 2018
… 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 …
Date created: June 27, 2011
Last updated: August 26, 2024
… of horseshoe crab bleedings and outcomes, “It’s the Wild West for the biomedical industry.”  The continued …
Date created: December 16, 2022
Last updated: December 20, 2022
… They are captured from the wild, piled inside plastic bins, and hauled into labs where …
Date created: January 3, 2022
Last updated: February 18, 2022
… 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 …
Date created: December 6, 2011
Last updated: January 8, 2020
… 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 …
Date created: December 16, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
… 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 …
Date created: April 5, 2016
Last updated: April 24, 2024
… 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 …
Date created: January 23, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
… 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. …
Date created: January 4, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024

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.

Date created: February 25, 2014
Last updated: January 10, 2020
… “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 …
Date created: July 22, 2024
Last updated: September 5, 2024
… 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 …
Date created: September 4, 2024
Last updated: September 13, 2024
… 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 …
Date created: September 18, 2015
Last updated: April 24, 2024
… 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 …
Date created: November 8, 2010
Last updated: April 24, 2024
… 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 …
Date created: February 23, 2012
Last updated: January 15, 2020
… 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 …
Date created: May 18, 2009
Last updated: February 3, 2022
… with Congress having directed the USDA to restore AWA and Horse Protection Act (HPA) records that were purged from the … the care of their animals in the event of an emergency. Horse racing: The omnibus includes the Horseracing Integrity … a rule that would ban the use of devices to sore horses. Wild horses and burros: The bill protects horses and burros …
Date created: December 30, 2020
Last updated: February 2, 2022
… to speak out on behalf of horses, dogs and other animals. Horse welfare, in particular, has long been an issue of great … with kindness and respect. Willie speaks out on behalf of wild horses, as well, advocating for an end to inhumane and unnecessary roundups of free-roaming, wild horses by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The …
Date created: December 10, 2013
Last updated: April 24, 2024
… documentary on the rescue of thousands upon thousands of wild animals in Suriname after their rainforest home was … produced on Bureau of Land Management plans to round up wild horses in the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming … Stewart Udall to establish the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range—a refuge of more than 33,000 acres. Hope went on …
Date created: September 1, 2017
Last updated: April 24, 2024
… increase for the Department of the Interior under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act be used solely for … as immunocontraception—and not for unnecessary roundup of wild equines. We are also working to maintain “no-kill” … by the department of the Animal Welfare Act, the Horse Protection Act, and the Humane Methods of Slaughter …
Date created: June 2, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
… as enforcement of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Horse Protection Act (HPA). The $460 billion spending package … of proven humane fertility control methods to keep wild horses and burros in their natural habitats with their herds, and protects wild equines from lethal control methods and from being …
Date created: March 15, 2024
Last updated: September 5, 2024
… the ESA of funding is dangerous and irresponsible. Horses Horse slaughter: Congress extended the ban on the slaughter … by blocking the use of taxpayer funds to inspect domestic horse slaughter plants and horsemeat products. Horse soring: … and end the failed system of industry self-policing. Wild horses and burros: The bill protects horses and burros …
Date created: March 14, 2022
Last updated: January 18, 2024