BLM to build largest U.S. Wild Horse Prison in Nevada

Advocates raise humane and environmental concerns over industrial-scale feedlot. 

RENO (September 3, 2021) —  Today, the nation’s leading wild horse protection organization, the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) expressed outrage at a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposal to build a large-scale industrial agricultural facility in Nevada that will house thousands of federally-protected wild horses and burros removed from western public lands. 

Leading Wild Horse NGO Applauds Feinstein for Demanding Action to Protect Wild Horses and Burros from Slaughter

Washington D.C. (August 17, 2021) — Today, the nation’s leading wild horse and burro protection organization, the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC), praised U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for calling on the U.S.

AWHC’s Top 5 Problems with the BLM’s Response to Concerns about the AIP

(Feb 2022) In summary, these reforms are a muck bucket of nothing and will not stop the steady flow of wild horses and burros into the slaughter pipeline. Cash incentives must be ended in order to address the root of the AIP problem.  

#1 The BLM continues to underestimate the scale of the problem, asserting that the “vast majority” of adopters adhere to agency requirements, but has failed to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation to support the claim.

BLM’s Adoption Incentive Program Sends Over A Dozen More Wild Horses and Burros to Slaughter Auctions

Agency’s recent reforms will not stop this tax-subsidized slaughter pipeline for these federally-protected icons

AWHC’s Response to the BLM’s Announced Changes to Its Wild Horse & Burro Adoption Program

July 28, 2021

On July 26, 2021, the BLM announced a series of reforms to its Adoption Incentive Program (AIP) in response to AWHC’s investigative findings and an explosive New York Times report documenting the program as a taxpayer-subsidized pipeline to slaughter for federally protected wild horses and burros. 

BLM Changes to Wild Horse Adoption Incentive Program Insufficient to Prevent Slaughter

Group that helped expose program as a pipeline to slaughter for scores of wild horses and burros says cash payments for adoption must end 

Bay Area Sanctuary Rescues Victims of Federal Wild Horse Slaughter Program 

Equine refuge steps up to save 7 wild horses and burros adopted through controversial Bureau of Land Management Adoption Incentive Program then dumped at slaughter auctions 

Leading Wild Horse NGO Delivers 50K Signatures to Interior to Halt to Controversial Roundup

WASHINGTON (July 8, 2021) — Today, the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC), the nation’s leading wild horse protection organization, hand-delivered the signatures of 50,000 citizens to the U.S. Department of the Interior with a final plea to Secretary Deb Haaland and Acting Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Nada Culver to suspend plans to round up and remove 80% of the famed Onaqui Mountains wild horse herd in Utah.

Sierra Club Adopts Friendly Wild Horse Policy

(June 21, 2021) The Sierra Club is one of the nation’s leading environmental organizations focusing on issues ranging from climate change to sustainable energy, and now the organization has endorsed the protection of wild horses and burros. This past May, the Board of Directors adopted a new Wild Horse and Burro Policy that reversed and replaced the forty-year-old position.

The Sierra Club’s previous position statement on wild horses and burros looked like this:

Members of Congress Say “Whoa” to Federal Adoption Incentive Program That’s Sending Truckloads of Horses to Slaughter

Explosive New York Times report, prompted by the American Wild Horse Campaign’s investigation, fuels calls for anti-slaughter legislation and end to wild horse roundups