ACTION ALERT

Tell Congress It Must Include Critical Protective Language for Wild Horses in '26 Funding Bill 

America’s wild horses and burros urgently need your help!

The president’s 2026 budget proposal does not include what had become standard annual language barring the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from using our tax dollars to kill healthy wild horses and burros or sell them to slaughter.

We must ensure this critically important protective language is included in the final bill to fund the Department of Interior and the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program!

More Ways You Can Help

1. Call (202) 224-3121 (three calls: two U.S. Senators and one U.S. Representative). Urge your members of Congress to:

• tell the House and Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittees to include language preventing the government from killing healthy wild horses and burros or selling them without protections against slaughter;
• support the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act, which would ban horse slaughter and the export of American horses for slaughter (bill numbers are H.R. 1661 in the House, S. 775 in the Senate);

2. Help us spread the word: Tell your friends about the need to protect wild horses and burros. Please follow us on social media and like and share our posts on social media! You can follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Bluesky, Tik Tok, Youtube and LinkedIn.
3. Please consider a donation to our Wild Horse Defense Fund. It supports our Washington, D.C., lobbying efforts, grassroots advocacy and selective litigation.