28 February 2010
The Calico Roundup is over. 1922 mustangs captured, 610 estimated left. At least 64 horses have died and 35+ foals have been aborted to date. Foals are being born in the pens without windbreaks or shelter. The death toll is expected to rise in the Fallon feedlot-style facility where the Calico mustangs are held. Two foals have died after their hooves began falling off. Read the humane observer's blog here. Nearly 12,000 wild horses and burros are to be rounded up and removed from their homes this year (schedule) at a cost of over $32 million in taxpayer dollars. Click here to take action now -- the hoofbeats of our last wild horses need to be heard in Washington. Be sure to check the Cloud Foundation Blog for frequent updates. Wild horses are outnumbered on our public lands at least 100:1 by privately-owned livestock on our public lands and although federally-protected by the 1971 Wild Horse & Burro Act, are not being treated as such on their designated western public lands, 24+ MILLION acres of which have been taken away since the Act's passage.... continued here. Photo Elyse Gardner
