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Tell BLM: No Destructive Mining Projects in Wild Horse Habitat
Oppose Two Massive Water-Guzzling and Polluting Mining Projects In
Wild Horse Areas
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
routinely cites lack of water as a major reason for removing wild horses from public lands. Yet the agency
is now poised to approve massively polluting and water-guzzling mining projects in the Pancake and Triple
B Herd Management Areas (HMAs), both sites of recent and large-scale wild horse removals. Please take a
moment today to urge the BLM to reject the expansion of the Bald Mountain Mine and the approval of the Pan
Mine project. Help us take a strong stand against the BLM's giveaway of our public resources. It's time to stop
the mass destruction of our public lands for the benefit of a few corporations at the expense of American
taxpayers and America's wild horses and burros. To read more and to take action Click Here
Take Action to Protect Wild Horses and Burros During "Drought" Conditions
The BLM's Battle Mountain District in
Nevada is known as "the heart of wild horse country," with jurisdiction over more HMAs (28) than any other BLM
district. The more than 4,000 wild horses and burros living in the Battle Mountain District now face the threat of
removal as part of a Drought Management Plan. The agency is currently accepting public comments on an
Environmental Assessment (EA) for the plan. The EA is overly broad and may be used by the BLM to justify the
blanket removal of wild horses and burros from these important herds. Please help us protect the mustangs and
burros of the Battle Mountain District. To read more and to take action Click Here
Humane Organizations Join Forces with U.S. Senator & Celebrities
to Push Horse Slaughter Ban
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) teamed up with celebrities Bo Derek and John Corbett
and humane organizations for the annual "Horses on the Hill" lobbying event, organized
to generate support for the Senator's American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (S. 1176 and H.R. 2966).Each year, over 100,000 American horses face unspeakably cruel deaths
at slaughter plants in Mexico and Canada. Senator Landrieu's bill would outlaw the
slaughter of horses on U.S. soil, and would ban the transport of horses across U.S borders
for slaughter. Joining the event was Declan Greg, a nine-year-old New Hampshire boy whose
fight to save U.S. horses from slaughter has gained national attention. Please click here to
watch Declan's speech at the Horses on the Hill event. To read more about Senator Landrieu's
efforts to ban horse slaughter, please click here or below.
