Laura Leigh loves horses. They have held a special place in her heart since childhood. Laura has been involved in anti-slaughter issues for more than two decades. Leigh has attended more roundups than any other observer including government personnel in the last four years. Her videography has been seen on CNN, NBC, BBC, PBS and her photography in many print venues, she holds press credentials through Horseback Magazine. Wild Horse Education was created to gain protections from abuse, slaughter and extinction for our beloved wild horses and burros.
Summer in the West is intense as the mega-drought moves through the better part of the last decade and climate changed induced “fire seasons” increase. Drought is not listed as an unexpected […]
The roundup of the Onaqui wild horses has begun. The “Gather EA” for this operation was approved in December 2018. The 2019 operation the first to complete under this EA. In 2019 […]
The court rejected a last minute bid for an order to halt the roundup at the Onaqi HMA. The operation is set to begin and we believe it will begin in the […]
Summer is a busy time of year in wild horse advocacy. Our inbox is full of notes from readers feeling a bit scattered and frantic. Summer roundups bing a sense of urgency […]
This is a very busy season for advocacy. A few brief updates: Confusion HMA (litigation): Last October WHE filed against the (spay plan) ovariectomy via colpotomy at Confusion. In April we informed […]
The stallions of the wild capture the heart and imagination. Most often it will be a stallion (that a human visitor to his herd has given a name) that becomes a memorialized […]
We have been sharing photos of some wild horses from the Pancake HMA where we have an active legal action to stop the recently approved plan for the HMA from moving forward. […]
The single greatest threat to our wild horses and burros is habitat loss and fragmentation. Our ranges are not open spaces managed for a “thriving natural ecological balance.” Our western ranges are […]
Preface, before we meet some wild ones: The team at Wild Horse Education covers multiple HMAs each year in our field work. We document changing range conditions primarily brought on by rapidly […]
The BLM has just released the final EA and Decision Record for the Surprise Complex. The Surprise Complex contains six HMAs administered by the BLM Applegate Field Office (California): Massacre Lakes, Bitner, […]
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