Tag: wild horses

Long Island-based animal advocates working to save troubled wild horses out West are optimistic now that a recently passed federal spending measure includes a provision for rewilding, or returning wild horses to nature.

Equine advocates and elected officials from both sides of the aisle recently joined forces on Long Island to brainstorm how best to address the crisis facing America’s wild horse population in the West.

They oppose a controversial proposal that would authorize euthanizing thousands of mustangs that were rounded up on federal land in the West.