"Saving America's Horses" director, producer tells it like it is in the July 2011 issue of True Cowboy Magazine
"Most people would be surprised to know that there are those in our government including the USDA, that actually support horse slaughter." - Katia Louise, Saving America's Horses, Wild for Life Foundation
July 2011 Issue, pages 28-31. Check it out and please share!
http://www.truecowboymagazine.com/
BLM can roundup 1,700 mustangs in Nevada after appeals court lifts injunction
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
SCOTT SONNER
APNewsBreak:
RENO, NV (July 19, 2011) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management was given the green light on Tuesday to move ahead with a controversial horse roundup in Nevada when a federal appeals court lifted a temporary injunction blocking the gather of more than 1,700 mustangs.
An animal rights group, the Colorado-based Cloud Foundation, had sued to stop the roundup. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the group had failed to show it likely could prove during future hearings that the roundup is illegal and that removal of horses from federally protected public rangeland would cause irreparable harm.
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Many thanks to all those who donated in support of replenishing our emergency hay fund. Thanks to your support we will have hay for a rainy day :)
Stay tuned for new about our bi-annual hay drive coming up in August!
Thank you,
The Team at Lifetime Equine Refuge
Stay tuned for new about our bi-annual hay drive coming up in August!
Thank you,
The Team at Lifetime Equine Refuge
Federal appeals judge halts NV wild-horse roundup
Federal appeals judge halts NV wild-horse roundup
MARTIN GRIFFITH, Associated Press
Updated 11:57 p.m., Friday, July 15, 2011
http://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Federal-appeals-judge-halts-NV-wild-horse-roundup-1468449.php
MARTIN GRIFFITH, Associated Press
Updated 11:57 p.m., Friday, July 15, 2011
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal appeals judge on Friday night granted a temporary injunction to halt a government roundup of about 1,700 wild horses from the range in Nevada.
Judge Richard Paez of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the order after U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben earlier in the day denied a motion to stop the federal Bureau of Land Management's removal of mustangs from public lands near the Utah line.
Paez's order will remain in effect until a three-judge panel (continued)http://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Federal-appeals-judge-halts-NV-wild-horse-roundup-1468449.php
America's Wild Horses Under Siege - Judge Rules Against Protection of Triple B Wild Horses
For Immediate Release
Los Angeles, CA
July 15, 2011, 7PM PST
Wild for Life Foundation
Compassionate Animal TV
Wild for Life Foundation is deeply concerned for the welfare of the Triple B Wild Horses. Despite a lawsuit filed by wild horse advocates to protect the horses from cruel removal, BLM's planned round up and removal of at least 1,726 wild horses from 1,682,998 acres herd management areas (HMAs) in eastern Nevada will go forward.U.S. District Court Judge Howard McKibben issued a decision in favor of the BLM which allows the BLM to proceed with the Triple B round up to remove wild horses beginning on Saturday, July 16.
There are 975 acres per wild horse is this HMA; yet BLM claims that the wild horse population is five times over the minimum appropriate management level. Horses will be stampeded by helicopter chases in deathly high summer temperatures. Many mares are pregnant and will most likely be unable to keep up the pace for the long distance stampede. Many foals have died in the process of previous round ups because their hooves fall off while trying to keep up with their mothers. 1000's of horses have died after being rounded up and placed in BLM holding facilities.
The BLM blames wild horses for poor range conditions where the land is actually overgrazed by cattle.
Link to Press release by BLM:
http://www.savingamericashorses.org/Judge%20Rules%20in%20Favor%20of%20BLM%20Round%20Up.pdf
Learn more about this issue:
http://www.savingamericashorses.org/home.html
Contact:
admin[@]wildforlifefoundation.org
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Los Angeles, CA
July 15, 2011, 7PM PST
Wild for Life Foundation
Compassionate Animal TV
America's Wild Horses Under Siege
Wild for Life Foundation is deeply concerned for the welfare of the Triple B Wild Horses. Despite a lawsuit filed by wild horse advocates to protect the horses from cruel removal, BLM's planned round up and removal of at least 1,726 wild horses from 1,682,998 acres herd management areas (HMAs) in eastern Nevada will go forward.U.S. District Court Judge Howard McKibben issued a decision in favor of the BLM which allows the BLM to proceed with the Triple B round up to remove wild horses beginning on Saturday, July 16.
There are 975 acres per wild horse is this HMA; yet BLM claims that the wild horse population is five times over the minimum appropriate management level. Horses will be stampeded by helicopter chases in deathly high summer temperatures. Many mares are pregnant and will most likely be unable to keep up the pace for the long distance stampede. Many foals have died in the process of previous round ups because their hooves fall off while trying to keep up with their mothers. 1000's of horses have died after being rounded up and placed in BLM holding facilities.
The BLM blames wild horses for poor range conditions where the land is actually overgrazed by cattle.
Link to Press release by BLM:
http://www.savingamericashorses.org/Judge%20Rules%20in%20Favor%20of%20BLM%20Round%20Up.pdf
Learn more about this issue:
http://www.savingamericashorses.org/home.html
Contact:
admin[@]wildforlifefoundation.org
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WFLF Launches New PSA to Raise Support for Lifesaving Equine Protection
Wild for Life Foundation launches new PSA to help raise support for lifesaving equine protection.Click here to see this important message now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdUXAk6tUvo
Thank you for taking the time to see the important message and please share it with others and help us get the word out.
http://www.lifetimeequinerefuge.org/donate.html
Lifetime Equine Refuge is the lifesaving equine protection program under Wild for Life Foundation (WFLF), a CA 501 (c)(3) volunteer based charity dedicated to saving, protecting and preserving horses in need. Our educational program is dedicated to raising awareness about the equine welfare issues with a focus on the preservation of America's wild horses and the need for protection of all horses from slaughter. WFLF's award winning documentary, "Saving America's Horses" is the 1st and only feature length educational film resource with a focus on protecting both wild and domestic equines.
Lifetime Equine Refuge rescues horses in need and provides them with medical care, food and love. Our rehabilitation and sanctuary program, Garden of Equine provides permanent residency for horses that cannot be re-homed. Visitors benefit from a hands on learning and healing experience. WFLF's equine programs provide social guidance and education about the need for compassionate and humane treatment of all horses and burros.
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Help is Needed to Replenish Emergency Hay Fund
Dear Friends,
PLEASE help if you can - we need help to replenish the emergency hay fund which covers one month feed for the Lifetime Equine Refuge horses. Hay can mean the difference in life or death to a horse. Hay is one of the most important continuing expenses we must fund-raise for. Remember NO donation is too small!
Before these innocent wild and domestic horses were rescued they were victims of horrible abuse; severely under weight and traumatized from America’s slaughter pipeline. I know because work with each of the horses that come into our shelter myself. Many of these horses were rescued during the course of investigating the CA slaughter pipeline during the making of the film, "Saving America's Horses". They needed hay to begin their recovery and they needed love to gain back their self worth.. But it doesn’t end there. A balanced nutritional diet must be maintained to keep horses healthy.
Hay prices doubled this last winter and they have yet to drop back down to normal. It's costing twice as much to feed the rescue horses than before. We are asking supporters to consider making a donation - no amount is too small or too large - to help us feed the rescue horses.
Your donation of as little as $10 can help us make the life of a once slaughter bound, neglected or abused horse a lot brighter. Horses at Lifetime Equine Refuge know they were rescued and they appreciate every meal; morning, noon and night. Help us provide these loving and innocent horses with a lifetime of security by making a donation to our hay fund today!
You can donate on our blog and website, or you may click HERE to donate to the hay fund through our website. Donations are also accepted through our Cause page on Facebook.
You may also mail a check to us at
WFLF Lifetime Equine Refuge
19510 Van Buren Blvd, Ste F3236
Riverside CA 92508
Thank you for taking the time to read this and please share with others and help us get the word out about our hay drive!
Sincerely,
Wild for Life Foundation
Wild for Life Foundation (WFLF) is a 501 (c) (3) volunteer based, nonprofit charity dedicated to protecting and saving animals from cruelty and extinction. (EIN: 26-3052458)
PLEASE help if you can - we need help to replenish the emergency hay fund which covers one month feed for the Lifetime Equine Refuge horses. Hay can mean the difference in life or death to a horse. Hay is one of the most important continuing expenses we must fund-raise for. Remember NO donation is too small!
Hay prices doubled this last winter and they have yet to drop back down to normal. It's costing twice as much to feed the rescue horses than before. We are asking supporters to consider making a donation - no amount is too small or too large - to help us feed the rescue horses.
Your donation of as little as $10 can help us make the life of a once slaughter bound, neglected or abused horse a lot brighter. Horses at Lifetime Equine Refuge know they were rescued and they appreciate every meal; morning, noon and night. Help us provide these loving and innocent horses with a lifetime of security by making a donation to our hay fund today!
You can donate on our blog and website, or you may click HERE to donate to the hay fund through our website. Donations are also accepted through our Cause page on Facebook.
You may also mail a check to us at
WFLF Lifetime Equine Refuge
19510 Van Buren Blvd, Ste F3236
Riverside CA 92508
Thank you for taking the time to read this and please share with others and help us get the word out about our hay drive!
Sincerely,
Katia Louise
Volunteer Executive DirectorWild for Life Foundation
Wild for Life Foundation (WFLF) is a 501 (c) (3) volunteer based, nonprofit charity dedicated to protecting and saving animals from cruelty and extinction. (EIN: 26-3052458)
Lawsuit Filed to Challenge Triple B Roundup
Jul 6, 2011
By Laura Allen
Animal Law CoalitionLifetime Equine Refuge
Saving America's Horses
Wild for Life Foundation
A lawsuit has been filed to try to stop BLM's planned round up and removal of at least 1,726 wild horses from 1,682,998 acres of the Triple B, Maverick Medicine and Antelope Valley herd management areas (HMAs) in eastern Nevada.
Plaintiff The Cloud Foundation describes, "The wild horses of the Triple B, Maverick Medicine and Antelope Valley HMAs are free-roaming on the remote high desert mountains and valleys of east central and northeast Nevada--north of Ely, south of Elko on the Utah border. They have been characterized as a diverse, colorful, intermingling herd with some possessing old mustang origins. Many wild horses descend from an old Shoshone Indian herd known for pintos and paints, as well as a number of medicine hats, horses sacred to Native Americans". Only 472 horses would remain after the Triple B roundup, and the mares would all be treated with an immunocontraceptive drug, PZP, to prevent pregnancy for up to 2 years. This would leave an unnatural sex ratio of 60% male.
46,000 cows and sheep would be allowed to remain to graze.
According to the Bureau of Land Management, the 1,726 wild horses, with about 975 acres per horse, are destroying the range. But apparently 46,000 cows and sheep are having no effect at all on the condition of the range or water. The BLM refused even to consider the effect of so many cows and sheep on the range, let alone reducing their numbers.
As the Complaint filed by Plaintiffs The Cloud Foundation, Craig Downer and Lorna Moffat explains, "Those that are not re-released (about 1,700) would be transported by big rig trucks to long term holding facilities in the Midwest of the United States, where they would live out their lives in confined, zoo-like conditions, separated by sex or sterilized, wild and free-roaming no more.
"Family members would be permanently separated-stallions and mares from each other, and mares and stallions from their foals. Long-term family bonds would be forever severed. Incarcerated in long-term holding facilities in the Midwest, stallions would be gelded, mares would typically be separated from the gelded stallions, and the acres per wild horse in these fenced facilities would be only a tiny fraction of what it is in their natural homeland in the HMA."
The BLM is required to justify its brutal roundups and removal of wild horses and burros from the range in Environmental Assessments called EAs. Under the National Environmental Policy Act, "whether by Environmental Impact Statement or Environmental Assessment, the agency must ‘study, develop, and describe appropriate alternatives to recommended courses of action in any proposal...'" 42 U.S.C. §4332(E). The implementing regulations provide that this consideration of all reasonable alternatives is "the heart of" the environmental analysis. 40 CFR §1502.14.
EAs when issued in cases recommending roundups of wild horses and burros are typically cookie cutter reports go something like this: The few wild horses and burros, as in this case, are causing degradation of the range and water sources; the range cannot support the horses and most or all are "excess" which must be removed.
Typically, these EAs fail to mention the numbers of livestock that are more likely the culprit of any range degradation or lack of water. There are any number of cases where the evidence establishes that, in fact, the range can support the few wild horses that under the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, 16 U.S.C. §§1331 et seq., are supposed to be protected from "capture", "harassment" and "death" and managed at "the minimal feasible level". Only "excess" horses, those that represent an overpopulation, can be removed. The goal is to maintain a "thriving ecological balance".
In this case the Decision Record ("DR"), Finding of No Significant Impact ("FONSI"), and Final EA ("FEA") were issued on May 17, 2011. True to form, BLM claims the few horses are degrading the range. As the plaintiffs' point out, "the BLM [fails to] explain how any noncompliance with land standards ...is not primarily the result of livestock grazing, which is about eight times higher and more intensive than grazing from wild horses". Complaint, par. 36.
The roundup was to have begun by now but the BLM delayed it pending a July 14, 2011 hearing before the Nevada federal District Court on the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the roundup and removal.
(read complete article here)
Defending Their Freedom and Saving Their Lives
Dear Friends,
The nation’s anniversary is once again upon us; a time to celebrate and a time to reflect. We hope that you'll take a moment to remember America’s horses for whom America's freedom may not have been possible.
The freedom of America’s wild horses from a life of torment and cruelty may only come through a violent and barbaric death. Right now, thousands of America’s horses—including show horses, racehorses, wild horses, companion horses, and others—are suffering on U.S. soil; hundreds of wild horses stampeded down lava fields by helicopter, all breeds stockpiled into feedlots, and crammed into double-deck cattle trailers for days on end, in record high temperatures without water, food or rest. Their days are spent in agony and some won’t even survive this final journey as they cross federal borders to be butchered alive for wealthy dinner plates abroad.
Even if you've already pledged to stop the round ups and ban the slaughter, these animals need your help today. Please support WFLF's work to put an end to the horse slaughter trade and our work to preserve and protect wild horses right now.
Horses have helped to bring freedom to the people of this country. Please help us stand up for America’s wild horses who are brutality removed from their rightful range lands using tax payer dollars. Help us put an end to the barbaric slaughter of America’s horses for human consumption. Polls show that over 70% of the American people who know what’s happening to them are against these activities.
“Saving America’s Horses”, a cause driven film just started the festival circuit, and has already won multiple awards including BEST OF FESTIVAL at its first showing in Los Angeles and is getting rave reviews but… the slaughter of our American Horses may never end unless our horses are able to tell their story.
Wild for Life Foundation is dedicated to saving, protecting and preserving these majestic animals who are being abused and killed against the wishes of the American people. Thousands of horses are exported every year to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered for their meat, but "Saving America's Horses" is the life saving film that can change all that for our American horses. Horses been there for us when we needed them most and it’s time for Americans that care about these animals to help in Defending Their Freedom and Saving Their Lives.
Help us help them with the promise of freedom for our American horses. Your gift today will support these and all our efforts to end equine suffering and abuse.
Thank you for all that you do toward raising compassion for these and all animals. Our successful work would not be possible without the benevolence of people like you.
Warmest regards,
Lifetime Equine Refuge
Saving America’s Horses
BTW, Please remember to help these horses and burros who are suffering all over the country this 4th of July, especially those being killed in the brutal slaughter pipeline. Please help us tell the world that America’s horses are not food by donating online right now!
The nation’s anniversary is once again upon us; a time to celebrate and a time to reflect. We hope that you'll take a moment to remember America’s horses for whom America's freedom may not have been possible.
The freedom of America’s wild horses from a life of torment and cruelty may only come through a violent and barbaric death. Right now, thousands of America’s horses—including show horses, racehorses, wild horses, companion horses, and others—are suffering on U.S. soil; hundreds of wild horses stampeded down lava fields by helicopter, all breeds stockpiled into feedlots, and crammed into double-deck cattle trailers for days on end, in record high temperatures without water, food or rest. Their days are spent in agony and some won’t even survive this final journey as they cross federal borders to be butchered alive for wealthy dinner plates abroad.
Even if you've already pledged to stop the round ups and ban the slaughter, these animals need your help today. Please support WFLF's work to put an end to the horse slaughter trade and our work to preserve and protect wild horses right now.
Horses have helped to bring freedom to the people of this country. Please help us stand up for America’s wild horses who are brutality removed from their rightful range lands using tax payer dollars. Help us put an end to the barbaric slaughter of America’s horses for human consumption. Polls show that over 70% of the American people who know what’s happening to them are against these activities.
“Saving America’s Horses”, a cause driven film just started the festival circuit, and has already won multiple awards including BEST OF FESTIVAL at its first showing in Los Angeles and is getting rave reviews but… the slaughter of our American Horses may never end unless our horses are able to tell their story.
Wild for Life Foundation is dedicated to saving, protecting and preserving these majestic animals who are being abused and killed against the wishes of the American people. Thousands of horses are exported every year to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered for their meat, but "Saving America's Horses" is the life saving film that can change all that for our American horses. Horses been there for us when we needed them most and it’s time for Americans that care about these animals to help in Defending Their Freedom and Saving Their Lives.
Help us help them with the promise of freedom for our American horses. Your gift today will support these and all our efforts to end equine suffering and abuse.
Thank you for all that you do toward raising compassion for these and all animals. Our successful work would not be possible without the benevolence of people like you.
Warmest regards,
Katia Louise
Wild for Life FoundationLifetime Equine Refuge
Saving America’s Horses
BTW, Please remember to help these horses and burros who are suffering all over the country this 4th of July, especially those being killed in the brutal slaughter pipeline. Please help us tell the world that America’s horses are not food by donating online right now!