The Bureau of Land Management is facing a number of difficult challenges in the National Wild Horse and Burro Program. Our goal in the West is to manage healthy, free-roaming herds on healthy rangelands; however, it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so.

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Suffolk Downs has established a new policy holding trainers accountable when their horses are sold for slaughter.

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Midway, Ky-The Board of Directors of Thoroughbred Charities of America, (“TCA”), approved grants of $1,592,225 to 147 non-profits in areas of rescue, research, backstretch, education and therapeutic riding, covering 35 states.

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The National Equine Welfare Protocol ensures that horses suffering as a consequence of cruelty or neglect will be rescued quickly and effectively, says The Horse Trust.

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WASHINGTON — The Humane Society of the United States announced that it will open a new 1,120-acre horse sanctuary and rescue facility in Douglas County, Ore. — the organization's fourth major animal care facility.

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WASHINGTON - The American Horse Council (AHC) and the United States Department of Agriculture are co-sponsoring a forum on The Unwanted Horse Issue: What Now?

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The American Horse Council (AHC) will host the 2008 National Issues Forum June 16-18 at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

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Congress is showing more understanding of the bad consequences of the horse slaughter ban, LMA members say after annual Washington Fly-In.

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BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Horses are being abandoned or neglected because the cost of keeping them has skyrocketed and many people don't understand all that's required of a horse owner, panelists said recently at Montana State University's fourth annual equine conference.

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LEXINGTON, KY - A number of factors have converged to make this a very difficult year for Kentucky’s horses. Equine overpopulation, a challenging economy, and last summer’s draught are among the causes of distress that have put Kentucky’s horses in the national media spotlight.

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The International League for the Protection of Horses (ILPH) announces that from today it is changing its name to World Horse Welfare.

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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — The Bureau of Land Management is seeing an increase in the abandonment of domestic horses on the 36,000-acre Little Book Cliffs (LBC) Wild Horse Range, located north of Grand Junction, CO.

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We’ve all been frustrated and heart-broken by the images of Kentucky’s starving horses in the media. None of us can save them all, but we can each do something to save a few, and the Kentucky Horse Park is going to make it very easy for you to do that!

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LEXINGTON, KY - More than 168 of Kentucky’s horses of various breeds have been provided with shelter and other humane assistance this year thanks to the Kentucky Equine Humane Center (KyEHC).

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The American Horse Council has teamed up with the USDA to present The Unwanted Horse Issue: What Now?, a forum dedicated to learning more about the growing problem of unwanted and neglected horses in the U.S.

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According to an Arizona news release, a man has pleaded guilty to the neglect and starvation of five horses; including three mustangs and one burro he had acquired through a Bureau of Land Management adoption center.

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Former Congressman Charlie Stenholm, now a policy advisor with Olsson Frank Weeda, examined the unintended consequences of legislation, specifically for immigration, energy, and horse processing at the Animal Agriculture Alliance’s (Alliance) seventh industry-wide Stakeholders Summit, held April 8 in Arlington, VA.

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A total of 40 horses have now been removed from a farm in Myers Flat, CA.

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According to a Washington state news release, a 63-year old Renton man has been charged with animal abuse for the neglect and starvation of several horses and one pony.

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