Legal Battles to Protect America's Wild Horses: A Costly Fight

The American Wild Horse Conservation (formerly American Wild Horse Campaign) is at the forefront of a legal battle to protect America's wild horses from illegal roundups and potential slaughter. As the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pushes Congress for permission to slaughter mustangs, they are also violating laws by rounding them up in Wyoming.

We’re not backing down. Even as we push the U.S. Senate to stop slaughter, we’re fighting the federal government's illegal actions to destroy mustangs. Last week, we won two critical lawsuits to stop the Forest Service from shrinking wild horse habitat in California and the BLM from destroying an Idaho mustang herd by sterilizing every horse in it.

Last Friday, we filed suit in U.S. District Court Wyoming to stop the BLM from illegally rounding up hundreds more wild horses than authorized by pretending young horses born this year don't count.

We're not going to let them get away with it, but we need your help.

We’re winning, but these lawsuits are expensive. They’re draining our funds and our staff resources.

Can you donate right now to help our legal and campaign teams stand up to the BLM?

As the BLM prepares for a possible pro-slaughter policy, the roundups are increasing and intensifying. Alarmingly, the agency is sending captured mustangs to private feedlots in Idaho and Utah where they may never be seen again. Our latest lawsuit challenges that too.

Our nation's beautiful, majestic wild horses and burros deserve our protection, not helicopters rounding them up, shipping them out of public view to private holding pens, and putting every one of these innocent animals at risk of being brutally killed or slaughtered.

Together, we’ll stop them. Please donate now.

Thank you,

Suzanne Roy, AWHC Executive Director