Wild horses of Nevada wall art
Kimerlee Curyl Wild Horse Fine Art
Wild Horse Paintings (Fine Art America)
Outer Banks Wild Horses
The National Academy of Sciences (Excerpts)
This report completes a “research study” assigned to a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee by the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 and agreed to in a contract between NAS and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The contract specified that the Committee proceed in three phases: […]
This Florida town now offers visitors electric horseless carriage rides—the first in the U.S.
For the first time, electric horseless carriages will be used for tourism in the United States. Mount Dora, Florida, is the first city in the country to implement the carriages. The quaint town, just north of Orlando, has beautiful parks, lakes, and a restored historic district that can all now be seen without a horse […]
Industries of equine abuse
Equines are the most abused of any species. Wild or domesticated their abuse comes in a wide array of torture. Whether it’s the sporting industry, hunting or Big Pharma there seems no escape for equines. For some the abuse and death come quickly while others can suffer for years with unattended injuries and health problems. […]
The wild Burros—the forgotten equine
Many people wonder what the difference is between a wild burro and a donkey. They are the same species. Their name differentiates them as either domesticated (donkey) or wild (burro) but they are both burros. A mule is the offspring of a female horse and a male donkey. All three have a long sordid history […]
The Veterinary Magic of the Middle Ages
The year is 1266, and your horse is acting strange. It started with a fever. But then weeping pustules appeared all over its body, and fluids poured forth from every orifice. Not long after, the horse stabled next to it came down with the same sickness. You’ve heard of this before. It’s the dreaded disease […]
It’s time to end horse slaughter, for good
It’s long past time for Congress to pass the Save America’s Forgotten Equines Act, H.R. 3355 / S. 2732, which would ban horse slaughter in the United States and the transportation of American horses out of the country for slaughter. Thousands of domestic horses and wild horses that once roamed freely on our public lands […]
Speak out for wild horses, against horse slaughter this month
While we want the population numbers (“Appropriate Management Level,” or AML) that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has set for wild horses living on these lands to be higher, the impact of long-term drought is quickly affecting all wildlife and the privately-owned livestock grazing our public lands in the West—further complicating the already contentious […]
Iceland urged to ban ‘blood farms’ that extract hormone from pregnant horses
Iceland is under pressure to ban the production of a hormone extracted from pregnant horses, a practice that has been described as “cruel” and “animal abuse.” The hormone is used by farmers across the U.K. and Europe to increase reproduction in pigs, cows, and other female farm animals. Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin (PMSG) is extracted […]
