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Monday, May 22nd, 2023

Biden is Fulfilling Trump’s Cruel Policy on Wild Horses

Author:     Christopher Ketcham
Source:     The Intercept
Publication Date:     March 27 2023 | 9:00 a.m.
 Link: Biden is Fulfilling Trump’s Cruel Policy on Wild Horses
Stephan:  

The Biden Administration is far from perfect, it is only marginally at the level of good, and nowhere is that made clearer than in environmental issues. What is worse agencies like the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) seem to have been corrupted into near uselessness when it comes to environmental protection. Here is a sad and pathetic example of what I mean. And of course since most of this takes place in Republican controlled states, they do nothing to help these poor animals. You could do something by writing Biden and telling him of your concern over his lack of living up to his public commitments.

A helicopter pushes wild horses during a roundup on July 14, 2021, near U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. Credit: Rick Bowmer / AP

The Biden Administration was supposed to have been a reprieve from the Trump years, but for conservationists who want the wild horses of the American West to live long and prosper, this didn’t happen. The anti-horse policies formulated under Donald Trump have been dutifully carried out by his liberal successor.

“We feel betrayed, because we thought this was an administration that really believed in wildlife protections,” Manda Kalimian, president of the wild horse and environmental advocacy group Cana Foundation, told me recently. “For all the hope we placed in Biden, it turns out he’s almost worse than Trump when it comes to wild horses.”

The protections for horses are enshrined in federal law. The 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act mandated that the animals “are to be considered … as an integral part of the natural system of the public lands,” and as such, they “shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death.”

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 8:05 pm

    Animals have rights also! The wild ones need to be taken care of, not rounded up and should instead be protected!