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Tell Congress to oppose budget proposals that threaten wild horses!

America's wild horses and burros need your voice.

On May 23, President Donald Trump released a 2018 budget proposal that includes provisions that place thousands of captured wild horses and burros at grave risk of taxpayer-funded euthanasia and of being sold to kill buyers.

These proposals include:

“the ability to conduct sales without limitation,” eliminating the current policy of captured wild horses and burros being offered for sale without limitation when they reach 10 years of age or fail to be adopted three times;
removing “language restricting BLM’s ability to use all of the management tools authorized in the 1971 Act,” including euthanasia and unlimited sales, scrapping Congress’s prohibitions in previous appropriations bills that barred BLM from euthanizing healthy animals;
slashing the Wild Horse and Burro Program budget by 12%, about $9.7 million, despite it making up a tiny fraction of the federal budget;
allowing the transfer of captured wild horses and burros to other government agencies in a way that strips them of the protections under the Wild Horse and Burro Act and lacks sufficient protections for the animals' future well-being.

It's critical that the American people urge Congress to oppose short-sighted, inhumane answers to the challenge of managing wild horses and burros.

For more information about the budget proposals, please click here.

We must urge our representatives to pursue humane, on-the-range management solutions. These include the use of safe, proven fertility control in combination with revisiting population targets based on a fair interpretation of multiple-use land management, providing incentives for ranchers who reduce livestock grazing in wild horse Herd Management Areas. and improving range stewardship.

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Subject: Please oppose budget proposals that threaten wild horses

Message:

Dear Official:

I am writing to respectfully ask that you stand with America’s wild horses and burros by supporting their humane on-the-range management instead of proposals that would likely result in the deaths of tens of thousands of these iconic animals.Please oppose provisions in President Trump’s recently released 2018 budget proposal that would put more than 47,000 wild horses and burros at risk of being shot in holding corrals, at taxpayer expense, or sold without restriction to kill buyers.They include: allowing the Bureau of Land Management to sell 47,000 captured wild horses and burros without limitation, placing them at grave risk of being shipped to Canada or Mexico for slaughter; removing “language restricting  BLM’s ability  to  use  all  of  the  management tools authorized in the 1971 Act,” including euthanasia, scrapping Congress’s prohibitions in previous appropriations bills that barred BLM from euthanizing healthy animals; allowing captured wild horses and burros to be transferred to other federal, state and local agencies without adequate protection language regarding their long-term treatment, including care after a horse’s usefulness for service ends, and no clear way for the BLM or the public to trace what happens to them; slashing funding for the care of wild horses and burros that have been removed from the range and are housed in short- and long-term holding facilities (despite the fact that the entire Wild Horse and Burro program makes up less than .002% of the federal budget). The administration’s proposals directly contradict the will of Congress. It stated clearly in the bipartisan omnibus bill that: the BLM and its contractors should not euthanize healthy wild horses or burros; that the U.S. Department of Agriculture should not use taxpayer dollars to fund horse meat inspections; and that any transfer of animals from the BLM to other government agencies for use as work animals should provide for their humane treatment. The administration’s proposals also contradict the will of the American people. Polls have shown that they consistently -- and overwhelmingly -- oppose horse slaughter. Dating back to the unanimous passage of the Wild Horse and Burro Act, in 1971, the public has invested tens of millions of dollars in its support of free-roaming wild horses and burros both on the range and in government holding facilities. Euthanizing or shipping them to slaughter now would be the ultimate betrayal. Please be a hero for horses: Oppose the administration’s proposals that put wild horses in jeopardy. Instead, support humane, on-the-range management through the judicious use of safe, proven fertility control, revisiting population targets based on a fair interpretation of multiple-use land management, providing incentives for ranchers who reduce livestock grazing in wild horse Herd Management Areas and range stewardship.

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