… Wild horses are protected under the Wild FreeRoaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, which says in … as integral but rather an impediment. As a result, wild horse numbers are kept artificially low. The Bureau of Land …
Date created: September 14, 2018
Last updated: April 24, 2024
… via colpotomy—to control the population of wild horses in Utah’s Confusion Herd Management Area (HMA). ( … as PZP to manage herds. AWI led a sign-on letter of 49 wild horse advocacy organizations and horse rescues asking her to …
Date created: March 24, 2021
Last updated: April 17, 2024
… welfare issues by cosponsoring legislation that would end horse slaughter, crack down on puppy mills, and strengthen … as well as a ban on spending taxpayer money to support horse slaughter. Formed in 2009, the CAPC, through …
Date created: February 6, 2013
Last updated: February 2, 2022
… dogs and cats, to farm animals and horses, to captive wild bears, lions, and other animals located in various … we have heard countless stories of animal shelters and horse stables being deliberately bombed, of stray dogs being … Charity Foundation: Ukrainian organization delivering horse feed, bedding, and veterinary supplies to stables in …
Date created: June 14, 2022
Last updated: June 24, 2022
… (BLM) proposed policy of killing healthy, unadopted wild horses and burros in its care. Congress has prohibited … BLM from using funds for that purpose or for selling wild horses and burros to others to be killed and used in … horses at slaughter plants. Without such inspections, no horse slaughter plant can operate in the US But this, too, is …
Date created: February 25, 2010
Last updated: January 9, 2020
… block the USDA from spending taxpayer dollars to inspect horse slaughter plants, thus effectively preventing these … as well as to continue a ban on killing healthy, unadopted wild horses and burros. The third provision encourages the … (BLM) to consider new and more humane methods of wild horse population management, as set forth in the 2013 …
Date created: March 6, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
… wildlife poaching and trafficking; language defunding horse slaughter plant inspections by the United States … commerce; a prohibition on sending federally protected wild horses to slaughter; a prohibition on funding the …
Date created: April 5, 2016
Last updated: January 15, 2020
… of Land Management’s efforts to surgically sterilize wild horses. She has supported the robust implementation of proven and safe fertility control methods to manage wild horse populations. … AWI Celebrates Confirmation of Haaland …
Date created: March 15, 2021
Last updated: January 18, 2024
… of wildlife poaching and trafficking; language defunding horse slaughter plant inspections by the United States … another year; a prohibition on sending federally protected wild horses to slaughter; a prohibition on funding the …
Date created: December 16, 2015
Last updated: February 2, 2022
… these animals. As it is seen in captive animals but not in wild animals, attention has been focused on the situations in … Stereotypic behaviour is not seen in animals in the wild and is understood to be abnormal. Therefore, in the UK, … Crib-biting and wind- sucking stereotypies in the horse. Equine Veterinary Education 5(3):151-154. 8. Fraser, …
Date created: May 13, 2016
Last updated: October 30, 2020
… mass-breeding facilities and continued extraction from the wild at heavy cost to wild populations. Rather than purchasing a bird from a pet … but even if bred in captivity, these animals are still wild in nature—and wild nature is where they belong. Private …
Date created: September 26, 2011
Last updated: August 12, 2024
… with outdated and inhumane sterilization surgeries on wild horses. We persuaded a federal court that the US Fish … Environmental Policy Act by failing to protect the only wild population of red wolves . We released a … Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Standing Committee to determine …
Date created: September 26, 2011
Last updated: August 7, 2024
… malnutrition, obesity or dental problems. Hamsters In the wild, hamsters feed upon seeds, wild grasses and flowers. However, a manufactured hamster … due to moisture. Additionally, hamsters hoard food in the wild and will do the same in a laboratory environment, so it …
Date created: January 16, 2020
Last updated: May 27, 2021
… The Horse Protection Act (HPA) was passed in 1970 to clamp down … hooves) to create a more high-stepping gait for walking horse shows. Weak enforcement of the law, however, has …
Date created: January 3, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
… and cats for use in laboratories and on the operation of horse slaughter facilities on US soil. It provides $3 million … domestic violence survivors and their pets, $4 million for Horse Protection Act enforcement, and $11 million for humane fertility control methods to keep wild horses and burros on the range. The omnibus also …
Date created: April 3, 2023
Last updated: April 7, 2023
… to bolster enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act and the Horse Protection Act and supporting continued funding for … Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)—requesting wild horse and burro management reforms. The reforms would ensure …
Date created: June 24, 2024
Last updated: June 28, 2024
A Message from the President
Date created: December 17, 2020
Last updated: December 17, 2020
… Sperm Whale Tiger Fiji Banded Iguana Orangutan African Wild Dog Asian Elephant Hawaiian Monk Seal Blue-Throated … Chlamyphorus truncatus Endangered Mammals Ass, African wild Equus africanus Endangered Mammals Ass, Asian wild Equus … Mammals Hog, pygmy Sus salvanius Endangered Mammals Horse, Przewalski's Equus przewalskii Endangered Mammals …
Date created: January 17, 2019
Last updated: June 19, 2024
… and doves who are unable to be released back into the wild. Katelyn Chen of Portland, Oregon, for the essay, “ The …
Date created: August 4, 2022
Last updated: August 25, 2022
Loro Parque, Tenerife, has housed western lowland gorillas since 1992. Initially we were to have two groups. One was to contain animals from an under-represented bloodline in Europe, which we were to house on a temporary basis. The other group was to contain selected males to form a bachelor group. What follows is a history of the gorillas at Loro Parque from 1992 to the present time.
Date created: April 18, 2016
Last updated: October 30, 2020
… with, feeding, and photo ops with cubs. Finally, the Horse Transportation Safety Act (HR 921) would prohibit the …
Date created: March 25, 2021
Last updated: March 25, 2021
… Welfare Act, Endangered Species Act, Humane Slaughter Act, Horse Protection Act, Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, Marine Mammal …
Date created: October 4, 2011
Last updated: April 2, 2021
… job enforcing the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and the Horse Protection Act, and not to spend money to license … random source Class B dog and cat dealers or inspect horse slaughter plants, nor to allow the destruction of healthy wild horses and burros. … Working to Get Animal Welfare …
Date created: May 4, 2012
Last updated: January 16, 2020
… mentioned in submitted questions and comments. Horses Our horse slaughter page gives deep background on this issue, and …
Date created: January 27, 2021
Last updated: March 9, 2022
… crimes against animals, restore protections for America’s wild horses and burros, end the sale of dogs and cats for …
Date created: January 16, 2020
Last updated: May 27, 2021