… of companion animals, farmed animals, marine mammals, and other wildlife. We also submitted testimony to the House … 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 …
Date created: June 24, 2024
Last updated: June 28, 2024
… been working with members of the House of Representatives and Senate to raise the profile of animal welfare issues and … (4) urging critical improvements in Animal Welfare Act and Horse Protection Act enforcement; and (5) ensuring continued … the expansion of safe fertility control options to keep wild horses and burros on the range. The horse slaughter …
Date created: June 20, 2023
Last updated: June 26, 2023
… increase for the Department of the Interior under the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act be used solely for humane, on-the-range … 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
… included many provisions affecting animals—both positively and negatively. The National Defense Authorization Act … and cats for use in laboratories and on the operation of horse slaughter facilities on US soil. It provides $3 million … $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
… protections for the gray wolf, lesser prairie-chicken, and Preble’s jumping mouse were omitted from the final text. … bill provides much needed protections for domestic and wild horses. The bill bars any federal funds from being used for the inspection of horse slaughter plants in the United States; this withholding …
Date created: March 23, 2018
Last updated: February 7, 2022
… included provisions that can be marked as both triumphs and setbacks for wild and domestic animals. The bill now makes its way to … to the welfare of animals in the coming year.” Triumphs Horse Slaughter Defund Congress has once again approved …
Date created: December 12, 2014
Last updated: February 2, 2022
… bills for the 2025 fiscal year are shaping up in Congress, and AWI is working to ensure animal welfare measures are … Appropriations bills retain provisions that block horse slaughter facilities from operating within the United … photo by Elizabeth Boehm/Danita Delimont On the wild horse front, the House Interior Appropriations report …
Date created: September 4, 2024
Last updated: September 13, 2024
… Thanks to the intervention of our allies in the House and Senate, the barrage of messages to Congress from animal … for its enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act and the Horse Protection Act. Congress renewed its directive that the … to public inspection. Protections for domestic and wild horses were reaffirmed. The bill prevents the return of …
Date created: July 2, 2018
Last updated: July 6, 2018
… A wild horse grazes near Glacier National Park in Montana. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and other federal land managers are required by the Wild … decision-making approaches of the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program. On January 27, at a meeting held in Spokane, …
Date created: February 24, 2012
Last updated: April 24, 2024
… equine welfare priorities as part of the transportation and infrastructure package (HR 3684). One is an amendment … States to foreign slaughterhouses. The second is the Horse Transportation Safety Act (HTSA). Championed by … strong provisions to promote the humane treatment of wild horses and burros and reform the Bureau of Land …
Date created: August 19, 2021
Last updated: April 17, 2024
… 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
… B dealers (see AWI Quarterly Summer 2009), both the House and Senate reports accompanying the bills funding the … (BLM) proposed policy of killing healthy, unadopted wild horses and burros in its care. Congress has prohibited … 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
… Incentive Program (AIP), which pays individuals to adopt wild horses ($1,000 per animal). Some of these horses are … pipeline after unscrupulous “adopters” pocket the money and then unload the horses. Shortly after the exposé broke, … for significant reforms during the BLM’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting. On June 30, the BLM …
Date created: August 19, 2021
Last updated: April 17, 2024
… precedent-setting litigation on behalf of animals in state and federal courts across the country, and most recently has … 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
… 12. This bill would prohibit private ownership of big cats and outlaw direct public contact such as cub petting and … well as the Prohibit Wildlife Killing Contests Act and the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act—use the following address: The …
Date created: June 14, 2022
Last updated: April 17, 2024
… Due to a loophole in the current law, the wasteful and inhumane practice of shark finning—whereby the fins of a living shark are cut off, and the animal is thrown back in the water to die—continues. … 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
… 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 Department of …
Date created: March 6, 2015
Last updated: January 9, 2020
… Wild horses are protected under the Wild FreeRoaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, which says in its preamble that they … 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
… for the US Department of Justice’s National Animal Cruelty and Animal Fighting Initiative, and for the agencies that are … job enforcing the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act and the Horse Protection Act, and not to spend money to license … 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