News Post 13

Today I read an article on The Telegraph. This article was about how the US Government could kill 45,000 wild horses. The reasoning behind this is to make room for more cattle farms. Based on a vote by the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), free roaming horses could possibly be slaughtered. Their plan, at first, was to just remove the horses to a new spot, however their numbers were rapidly increasing. Groups, such as the Humane Society, are very upset by this and are claiming that there are more human alternatives rather than killing the horses or removing them from their natural habitats.

According to this article, the US has fewer than 50,000 horses roaming in the US and 270,000 mustangs have been removed from private land since 1971.

Whether or not the BLM will go through with these plans is unknown.