On National Horse Protection Day, March 1, Nevada’s US Rep. Dina Titus Voices Support for a Day of Action Rallying For the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act of 2023-2024
Washington, DC (Feb. 29, 2024) – Leading up to National Horse Protection Day on March 1, Nevada’s US Rep. Dina Titus voiced support for a Congressional Day of Action, led by the nation’s top wild horse conservation organization, today known as American Wild Horse Conservation.
The Day of Action is virtually uniting advocates across America and sending a unified message to Congress: prioritize horse protection over cruel helicopter roundups. American Wild Horse Conservation is asking its advocates to support H.R. 3656, the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act of 2023-2024, which would prohibit certain uses of aircraft with respect to the management of wild free-roaming horses and burros.
Supporters are encouraged to voice support on social media – (#KeepWildHorsesWild and #HaltTheHelicopters) and sign their names to AWHC’s letter calling on Congress to support H.R. 3656.
H.R. 3656 primary sponsor, US Rep. Dina Titus (Nev-D), said:
“On National Horse Protection Day, we call attention to the Bureau of Land Management’s disastrous wild horse and burro roundup practices that needlessly harm these icons of the West. Dozens of horses have already been killed this year due to deadly helicopter roundups in Nevada, and thousands more have been confined to overcrowded, disease-spreading holding corrals throughout the West.
“I urge my colleagues to advance our bipartisan bill, the Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act, to ban the use of helicopters and refocus management strategies towards humane, cost-effective fertility alternatives.”
Sponsors of H.R. 3656 also include Reps. Steve Cohen (Tenn-D.) and David Schweikert (Ariz-R.) and the 16 additional cosponsors of H.R. 3656.
American Wild Horse Conservation today announced its new name – (formerly the American Wild Horse Campaign) – reflective of the organization’s efforts to reform wild horse and burro protection across the American West, improve and expand protected natural habitats like in Fish Springs, Nevada, and set the conservation standard through the world’s leading wild horse fertility control initiative.
Learn more about that announcement and the full Day of Action here:
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About American Wild Horse Conservation
American Wild Horse Conservation (AWHC) champions humane, in-the-wild protection of the nation’s wild horses and burros on our public lands. AWHC is modernizing wild horse and burro conservation across the American West, expanding protected natural habitats in places like Fish Springs, Nevada, and setting the conservation standard through the world’s leading wild horse fertility control initiative. We are proving that new science-based models for wild horse and burro protection exist and are humane, cost-effective, and scalable.
