The American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) on Tuesday demanded President Trump intervene on the proposed Interior Department’s budget and save American Mustangs from being slaughtered by the Bureau of Land Management.
Suzanne Roy, Executive Director of the AWHC said the Bureau of Land Management requested Congress to allow the slaughter of over 46,000 captured mustangs and burros that Roy says is on the verge of extinction.
Roy said, “This lethal budget is wildly out of step with the wishes of the American people, and the American public will not stand for this travesty.”
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) practice of removing federally-protected wild horses and burros from public lands by shooting the animals from helicopters was documented by the AWHC in 2014 when the organization announced on its website the BLM had “budgeted two $6 Million contracts for helicopter roundups in 2014 and $1.5 million for plans to sterilize the stallions and mares.”
