IDA In Defense of Animals
August 2018
The Bureau of Land Management is murdering young foals and older horses in its terrifying helicopter roundups in the West. Terror-stricken wild horses are "accidentally" chased into barbed wire fences and young foals are literally run to death. We must demand that our legislators put a stop to this!
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1. Personal contact with Congress is the most effective
thing you can do for the wild horses and burros.
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State your name, your town or city, and telephone number. Be courteous. You
may wish to say:
The Bureau of Land Management has been mercilessly rounding up American mustangs with disastrous results, all while wasting our taxpayer dollars in doing so. In direct rejection of the mandates of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, the BLM has authorized practices allowing these animals to be tortured and killed. There are much more affordable and humane options available for wild horse and burro population control and management. You MUST put a stop to this!
2. Please send our petition (with your personal touch) to your congresspersons.
3. Please forward this ALERT.
The horror is only too real as wild mares desperately risk their own
lives trying to save their babies from the giant metal bird swooping down
upon them. Stallions scream for their families that they are bound by duty
and emotion to protect, as they are separated and removed.
The very agency that is charged by law with protecting these iconic animals
is doing just the opposite, and minimizing their murders with deceptive
terms like "capture shock."
Animal advocates have been documenting the deaths and savage treatment
during these roundups. Even though the Bureau of Land Management does not
allow observers to get within a reasonable distance, and often puts its
authorized area behind a natural land formation that partially blocks their
view, brave animal activists video and photograph these travesties. In the
Red Desert roundup alone, which ended Friday, August 17, ten horses were
killed, including six foals. How many more babies and protective family
members must die?
In Defense of Animals is one of 100 organizations that banded together to
write a Unified Statement that declares, "The Wild Horse Act protects wild
free-roaming horses and burros 'from capture, branding, harassment, or
death.' Yet, the Bureau of Land Management has subverted its legal mandate
to protect America's wild horses and burros through decades of
mismanagement, misinformation, aggressive treatment, and wasteful spending."
How can we, as Americans, stand for this? How can our legislators allow this
to go on when in 1971 Congress unanimously passed the bi-partisan Wild
Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act which required that America's wild horses
and burros be protected as "living symbols of the historic and pioneer
spirit of the West?" Act now in defense of wild horses and burros.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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