by Tech | Jun 3, 2024 | Action Alerts, Action Roundups, Action Wild Horses, In The News, News
The Bureau of Land Management today posted an updated schedule of its plans to permanently remove 10,444 wild horses and burros from our public lands from April 1-Oct. 30. By comparison, the BLM plans to treat with fertility control and then release just 209 mares...
by Tech | May 24, 2024 | Action Alerts, Action Slaughter, In The News, News, Slaughter
Return to Freedom is frustrated and disappointed that bans on horse slaughter and the export of horses for slaughter were not included in the version of the Farm Bill passed by the House Agriculture Committee. The $1.5 trillion package passed on Thursday, 33-21,...
by Tech | May 17, 2024 | Action Alerts, Action Slaughter, In The News, News, Slaughter
Urgent action needed: The next step in passing the House’s version of the agriculture funding bill is a markup session on May 23 at which members will offer and vote on amendments. Return to Freedom strongly supports a stand-alone bill permanently banning horse...
by Tech | Apr 23, 2024 | Action Alerts, Action Slaughter, In The News, News, Slaughter
The Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act, which would permanently ban horse slaughter in the United States as well as the export of American horses for slaughter, has amassed 222 bipartisan House cosponsors, a majority. That’s the good news:...
by Tech | Mar 18, 2024 | Action Alerts, Action Wild Horses, In The News, News, Press Releases
For immediate release LOMPOC, CA — Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation vowed on Monday that it will remain vigilant that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) not again pursue the invasive surgical sterilization of wild mares. In the BLM’s Fiscal Year...
by Tech | Feb 9, 2024 | Action Alerts, Action Slaughter, In The News, News
An update on the effort to ban horse slaughter: Last year, 20,282 American horses were shipped to Mexico or Canada for slaughter – a 1.97% increase. That marked the first increase since 2014, when 145,785 horses were exported to foreign slaughterhouses. The SAFE...
