The Humane Society of the United States denounces any serious consideration of selling off or killing more than 30,000 wild horses currently housed in BLM holding centers across the U.S. in an effort to solve the agency's self-inflicted financial problems.
The group also urges the BLM to reject the Advisory Board's cruel, short-sighted proposal and instead, work with The HSUS and other organizations represented in the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign Coalition to engage in a long-overdue reformation of the entire wild horse and burro management program.
The HSUS applauds the announcement yesterday by Madeleine Pickens that she hopes to work with BLM to find a life time sanctuary for the horses now in long term holding. However, The HSUS cautions that, without a change in the management priorities of the agency, this valiant effort will simply enable the agency to repeat its management mistakes.
The HSUS argues that most of the 30,000 wild horses currently held in captivity by the BLM should never have been removed from the range in the first place. Over the last decade, the BLM has implemented an aggressive, poorly managed, fiscally irresponsible wild horse roundup and adoption program that has resulted in an increasing number of wild horses being permanently warehoused in long-term holding facilities. Now, after years of blatant mismanagement and unanswered pleas from wild horse advocates to stop removing horses in such large numbers, the Advisory Board wants to wipe the slate clean by recommending an unprecedented, and unthinkable, option
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