America’s Voice for Wild Horse & Burro Conservation

American Wild Horse Conservation (AWHC) is the nation's champion for humane, in-the-wild protection of wild horses and burros on our public lands.

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Why We Exist

Keeping America’s Promise
to Wild Horses

The Promise

After a huge national movement, the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 was unanimously passed by Congress, and declared wild equines as “an integral part of the natural system of the public lands.”

The Problem

Despite legal protection, the Federal Bureau of Land Management spends over $150 million each year to cruelly remove and confine tens of thousands of wild horses and burros using helicopters.

The Solution

There’s a better way. AWHC works to advance ethical and responsible conservation of wild horses and burros. In-the-wild conservation is humane, cost-effective, scalable, and based on rigorous science.

KEEP WILD HORSES WILD
Marlon Reis
Kaitlynn Carter
Suzanne Roy
Scott WIlson
American Wild Horse Conservation is a national leader in using fertility control to keep Wild Horse populations from increasing to the point where the BLM historically employs roundups and removals. I am beyond grateful for this amazing organization’s leadership and participation, without which the [Colorado] Wild Horse Project would not have come to fruition.
Marlon Reis
First Gentleman of Colorado
I wanted to get involved with AWHC when I saw videos of wild horses getting rounded up by helicopters. These animals are majestic in the wild; seeing them forced into captivity is heartbreaking and cruel. The government can do better, and I’m looking forward to educating the American public and working to keep wild horses in the wild.
Kaitlynn Carter
Ambassador
American Wild Horse Conservation is more than a campaign. We are reforming wild horse and burro protection 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 have a new model for wild horse protection through conservation.
Suzanne Roy
Executive Director
There are currently 62,000 wild horses and burros in long term holding. This year, the BLM intends to remove an additional 20,000 from public rangelands, with the North Lander animals to account for 14% of those.
Scott WIlson
Director of Strategy and Awareness

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