… (AWA) inspectors document each instance of noncompliance and that online dealers who sell animals to consumers sight … The USDA received more than $2 million to enforce the Horse Protection Act (HPA) and curb soring of Tennessee … horse slaughter plants and horsemeat. The bill protects wild horses and burros under the authority of the Bureau of …
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… while the Trump administration began moving to cut staff and funds for agencies that administer critical programs. … welfare activities, including Animal Welfare Act (AWA), Horse Protection Act (HPA), and Endangered Species Act (ESA) … key reforms to the management of federally protected wild horses and burros to ensure their humane treatment. …
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… advocates with the death in June of esteemed author and naturalist Hope Ryden. AWI is honored to have worked with … documentary on the rescue of thousands upon thousands of wild animals in Suriname after their rainforest home was … Stewart Udall to establish the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range—a refuge of more than 33,000 acres. Hope went on …
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… The unnecessary removal of wild horses has reached an alarming rate under the current administration. Thousands of horses have been and continue to be removed from their native range, and … 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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… provides funds for Animal Welfare Act (AWA) enforcement and sets forth actions the US Department of Agriculture must … equines—most notably a significant boost in funding for Horse Protection Act enforcement, a permanent ban on the … facilities in the United States, provisions to protect wild horses and burros from slaughter, and funds to implement …
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… Tuesday in the House of Representatives to ban the sale and trade of ejiao (donkey-hide gelatin) products in the … said Suzanne Roy, executive director of the American Wild Horse Campaign. “Within the United States, we are witnessing …
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… Two bills were introduced to curb cruel, costly, and dangerous wildlife management methods. In May, Reps. Dina … Titus (D-NV) and David Schweikert (R-AZ) reintroduced the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act (HR 3656) , a bill to prohibit …
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… Colorado rancher and livestock hauler Tom Davis spent close to $18,000 to … 1,800 horses from the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program from 2008 to 2012, telling the BLM …
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For the upcoming fiscal year, beginning October 1, AWI provided members of Congress with a list of priorities covering the welfare of companion animals, farmed animals, marine mammals, and other wildlife.
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… this morning. The impacts of this action are sweeping and severe. This decision will cause NEPA processes to be … of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program, and to protest wild horse and burro roundups. We strongly opposed this action in …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a staunch advocate for animals and the environment who dedicated half a century to public … all animals. He strongly supported protecting our nation’s wild horses and burros, championing the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Protection Act and other …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… The Arizona congressman, a stalwart advocate for animals and the environment who dedicated half a century to public … Animal and Public Safety Protection Act to end the use of wild animals in circuses. He championed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Protection Act and other …
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… 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, …
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… 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 …
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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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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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… 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 …
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