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Protect Wild Horses from Slaughter

The 2005 Omnibus Spending Bill recently signed into law by President Bush contained an amendment to the Wild Horse Act of 1971. Slipped in at the last minute by Senator Conrad Burns (R-MT), the amendment mandates that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the agency that oversees the Wild Horse Act, sell "without limitation ... to the highest bidder ... any horse or burro more than 10 years of age" or those animals that have been "offered unsuccessfully for adoption at least three times." The rider makes it inevitable that wild horses and burros will be sent to slaughter. (Read the Chicago Tribune Op-Ed on the issue.)

Please phone or write to your federal representative and senators today, and urge them to reinstate protections for America's wild horses and burros. You can find your senators here, and you can look up your Representative at Congress.org, or ask us at [email protected]. Also, please write to the editors of your local newspapers, and share this message with your friends.

Ask your federal legislators to protect our nation's wild horses and burros by enacting the following measures:

  • Repeal the Burns amendment to the FY2005 Omnibus Appropriations bill.
  • Co-sponsor and push for passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act.
  • Stop the BLM from decimating wild horses and burros in herd areas.

Require the BLM to manage principally for wild horses and burros (as required by the Wild Horse Act). The primary use of herd areas should be for wild horses and burros, not cattle and sheep.