Help get more signatures on the petitions to save America’s wild horses and burros!
Our grassroots petitions are forwarded to the decision makers we are petitioning and make an impact in many ways. We use our petitions in meetings and in communications with elected officials, the Department of Interior, the Bureau of Land Management, VIPs and change-makers. Some petitions have been used in lawsuits. People use our petitions to advocate for wild horses and burros and the dire issues of abuse when meeting with their elected officials, etc.
For example, Palomino Valley Center and many other short-term holding facilities have avoided providing shade and shelter for wild horses and burros for decades despite advocates requesting it. Our petition for shade and shelter (http://chn.ge/1DriOvN) and our 2013 investigation (http://bit.ly/2bWvwxr) has made a huge impact to bring change thanks to people like you who have an opportunity to show you care about the captives and want to end suffering in the pens.
Even after the Bureau of Land Management (BoLM) was excused from providing shade and shelter as a result of an expensive U.C. Davis study, paid for by the BoLM with your tax-dollars, the petition is keeping the pressure on for change–to end the suffering in the pens.
In an important 2015 meeting regarding shade at Palomino Valley, a Bureau of Land Management staff member was shocked when I told him about the number of people who signed our petition wanting action. At that point he realized how important this issue really was to the greater public and not just a few advocates. Since then, the Bureau of Land Management is taking the issue seriously and taking steps, although baby steps, to bring relief to captive wild horses and burros. It’s essential to keep up the public pressure.
BoLM now says they are willing to provide shade after they have finished trials and will install windbreaks soon.
The Bureau of Land Management brings in more than $4 Billion a year and should have installed emergency shade 3 years ago when our investigation proved wild horses were dying in the heat waves. They have been stalling ever since. This is why we all need to keep the pressure on and need to triple the signatures on the petition ASAP.
Getting to the goal of 110,000+ signatures is essential so I hope you will join me in asking your friends and family to sign the shade and shelter petition. 110,000 + signatures really pushes elected officials, who are political animals, to “do something because voters care”. Your elected officials in Congress along with special interests control the Bureau of Land Management. You can make a difference against the big machine by getting more signatures on our petitions.
Below are some of our petitions for change. More can be found here: http://protectmustangs.org/?page_id=220
Bring emergency shelter and shade to captive wild horses and burros: https://www.change.org/p/bring-emergency-shelter-and-shade-to-captive-wild-horses-and-burros
Defund to Stop the Wild Horse and Burro Roundups and Slaughter: https://www.change.org/p/defund-and-stop-the-wild-horse-burro-roundups
Congress & President: Stop Slaughter & Experiments on 100,000 Wild Horses & Burros: https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-congress-president-stop-sterilization-slaughter-of-100-000-wild-horses-burros
It’s not an easy battle to save America’s wild horses and burros or it would already be done. Don’t give up hope. Please keep fighting for the abused wild horses and burros.
Meet with your elected officials or their aides personally, send a hand written letter with a printed cover page of the petitions to help you explain the issues at hand and show your elected officials that voters care and want them to take action to save America’s wild horses and burros.
Together we can stop the cruelty! Be a voice for the voiceless. It’s up to us to make it happen by getting more signatures on the petitions for change. Thank you and Bless you.
For the wild ones,
Anne Novak
Volunteer Executive Director
Protect Mustangs
Contact@ProtectMustangs.org
Mission: To protect and preserve native and wild horses
Protect Mustangs is a nonprofit organization who protects and preserves native and wild horses.
Please protect our wild horses from abuse, experimentation and slaughter. We, the greatest country in the world must protect the helpless. Use your powers to save them and pass the SAFE ACT.
Stop all the slaughter of our horses!
Stop the horse slaughter!!??
Stop
This is sickening!
Our wild horses should be safe on PUBLIC lands!!! Managing herds can be done via gelding, not these crude and abusive ways.
I vote, and so do my colleagues. Address this please.
Stop this abuse on these magnificent animals, shame on those who need to harm animals and have no heart.
“shade trials”….Only a depraved mind would even come up with such stupidity. All beings on earth require the basic needs in order to survive. Oxygen, food, water, SHELTER!! Yet, the NAZI/BLM machine proves time and time again how seriously depraved they truly are. Day after day they immerse themselves deeper and deeper into Hell. Violently rounding up the wild horses and burros, killing some in the process. Injecting these animals with PZP, a vile concoction derived from DEAD PIG OVARIES, a concoction that has been deemed unsafe for use in humans. Performing true Nazi-like sterilization experiments on pregnant mares. And don’t forget about the fact that many are shipped to slaughter and they pocket the money. Just ask Salazar and Davis. Yes Virginia, unfortunately, there are still monsters who walk among us.