Groups Sue BLM Over Wild Horse Sterilization Plan

Wild horse advocates are taking legal action against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to halt a controversial plan to surgically spay wild mares. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon, argues that the procedures are experimental, dangerous, and unethical.

September 25, 2018

A group of wild horse advocates hope a federal judge will stop the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from carrying out a plan to surgically spay wild mares at the agency’s Wild Horse Corrals, in Hines, Oregon, on grounds that the procedures are experimental and dangerous.

Earlier this month, The Cloud Foundation, Ginger Kathrens, the American Wild Horse Conservation (formerly American Wild Horse Campaign), and others filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Oregon seeking an injunction to prevent theBLMfrom performing ovariectomies on 100 wild mares on grounds that the procedures carry a high risk of mortality from bleeding, infection, and evisceration, as well as a potentially fatal protrusion of bowel through the surgical incision. The groups also claim spaying will subject pregnant mares to risk of miscarriage and associated complications.

TheBLMdeclined to comment on the ongoing litigation.

Originally posted by The Horse