BLM says wild populations are too large and herds need to be culled
Two young wild horses play while grazing in Reno, Nev., in 2010. The House Appropriations Committee voted July 20 to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in early May.
A Congressional committee vote on Tuesday amounts to a death warrant for the mustangs and wild burros that roam America’s rangeland, an advocate for the animals said.
The House Appropriations Committee voted to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in early May.
“Let’s be clear: House Appropriations Committee members just signed a death warrant for America’s mustangs, and it will lead to the wholesale destruction of these irreplaceable national treasures,” said Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Campaign in a news release.
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