Speak Out!

Today is National Horse Protection Day. 

You can use your voice to take action to protect our beloved equines, both wild and domestic, by taking action. We present 3 suggestions below.

Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act (commonly known as the “Titus Bill”)

H.R. 3656 was first introduced after a young colt suffered a horrific broken leg during the Pancake roundup in January 2022. The bill would stop the use of helicopters, expand fertility control options and require the Government Accounting Office to craft a report on the use of helicopter capture and analyze other capture methods. The bill currently has only 19 cosponsors. This bill became controversial in the advocacy community because it amends the Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971 to require the use of fertility control. Read bill text here. 

The deadline to pass this bill through the House and Senate, then signed into law by the President, is January 5, 2025. If you support this amendment to the Wild Horse and Burro Act, make a call and ask your rep to cosponsor today. You can find your representatives HERE.

Wild Horse Education is a key contributor to litigation active in the courts now to require management planning that would protect this herd through site-specific planning and identification of things like foaling season, critical habitat and rare genetics. The case is heading toward final ruling.

You can view the event that spurred this bill in exclusive video below from a WHE observer at trap. The video is graphic.

Rulemaking for an enforceable welfare policy 

No matter what method of capture or fertility control BLM uses, it has been made abundantly clear that an enforceable welfare policy is needed.

You can help by addressing your lawmakers to amend the spending bill to designate funding for enforceable welfare rules. We made it easy: Just Click HERE

Please take time and learn more about the “Welfare Debate” and how it continually gets derailed HERE. 

Right now, WHE carries litigation that demonstrates that BLM has failed to take the final steps toward creating any enforceable policy and instead uses woefully inadequate internal standards. Our litigation was filed during the horrific summer roundup at the Antelope Complex. Many of you remember that roundup due to the loss of a beloved stallion known as Sunshine Man. Video below is graphic. The lawsuit is active, now.

S.A.F.E. Act

Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act of 2023 or the SAFE Act of 2023 was introduced May 18, 2023, in the 118th Congress. This bill would stop the transport of equines, domestic and wild, for the purpose of slaughter for human consumption closing U.S. borders.

H.R. 3475 currently has 220 cosponsors in the House of Representatives as it sits in the House Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.

S. 2037 currently has 11 cosponsors in the Senate as it sits in the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee.

If you support the SAFE Act to become federal law, a call to your House members to urge SAFE H.R. 3475) come out of committee and get to a floor vote (your request is that simple). You can find your representatives HERE.

Learn more HERE.

Our amazing horses and burros need you to speak out on this important day. Your lawmakers need to hear from you!

Take action. You can choose one of the subjects above (or all of them) and take the action or make a call. You can find your reps HERE.

Our team is working hard today in the field, at the table and on litigation.

Let’s commit to protecting and preserving our wild ones this National Horse Protection Day.

We need your help to continue to document, expose, work toward reform with lawmakers and litigate. Our wild ones deserve to live free on the range and free from abuse.

Thank you for keeping WHE on the frontline in the fight to protect and preserve our treasured wild ones.