Wild Horses

Federal Agency's Horse Castration Plans On Hold

AP | By MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Horse Activists, Video, Animal Rights Activists, Animal Rights, Stallions, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wild Horses, Blm Stallion Castration, Stallion Castration, Horses, Nevada, Horse Castration, Animals, Castration, Green News

RENO, Nev. -- Federal land managers have agreed to postpone their precedent-setting plan to castrate hundreds of wild stallions in eastern Nevada pend...

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Face It: They Break Horses, Don't They?

Michele Willens | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Wild Roaming Horses and Burros Act, Horses, Colorado Wild Horses, Wyoming Wild Horses, Wild Horses, Green News
Michele Willens

I was somewhat intrigued by an urgent shout-out I received from my friend, the actress Wendie Malick (Lost in Cleveland, Don't Shoot Me) about the upcoming 40th anniversary of the "Wild Roaming Horses and Burros Act." Never heard of it either?

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Woman Saves 60 Horses From Their Deaths

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Liz Lecoq-Currier, Video, Denver Impact, Horse-Slaughterhouse, Wild Horses, Horses, Bureau of Land Management, Mexico, Rescued Horses, American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011, Horse Meat, Canada, Denver News

In the last week of August, Elizabeth Lecoq-Currier drove past a pasture of 60 horses in Crested Butte that she soon found out were bound for the slau...

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Judge Takes BLM To Task Over Wild Horse Roundup Misconduct

AP | By SCOTT SONNER | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Mustang Roundup, Wild Horse Freedom Federation, Cloud Foundation, Mustangs, Animal Rights, Nevada News, Wild Horses, Wild Mustangs, Wild Horse Roundup, Blm, Bureau of Land Management, Denver News

RENO, Nev. -- A federal judge in Nevada is taking the U.S. government to task for misconduct by a helicopter contractor during one of the biggest must...

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Wyo. Horse Roundup Plan Shifts To Birth Control

AP | BEN NEARY | Posted 10.06.2011

Read More: Wyoming News, Wyoming Wild Horse Round Up, Horse News, Wild Horse Roundup, Wild Horses, Wyoming Wild Horses, Wild Horse Castration, Horses, Wild Horse Birth Control, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Backing away from a plan to castrate wild stallions that has incensed environmental groups, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management ...

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Sheryl Crow Lends A Hand To Protecting Wild Horses

AP | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Sheryl Crow, Cloud Foundation Colorado, Cloud Foundation, Mustangs, Mustang Roundup Nevada, Denver News, Wild Horses, Horses, Denver Colorado, Colorado News, Colo, Co, Colo Horses, Colorado, The Cloud Foundation Horses, Clouds Foundation, Mustang Horses, Cheryl Crow , Denver News

RENO, Nev. — Singer, songwriter Sheryl Crow says she'll donate part of the profits from an upcoming concert in Wyoming to a wild horse protectio...

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'Potential For A Catastrophic Outbreak' Of Horse Virus

AP | By SCOTT SONNER | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Domestic Horses Virus, Humane Society Horses, Wild Horses Virus, Wild Horses, Equine Herpes Virus, Domestic Horses, Bureau Land Management, Animals, Horse Virus, Green News

RENO, Nev. -- Concerned about the threat of a catastrophic outbreak of a herpes virus among wild horse herds in the West, national animal advocates on...

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Feds Scale Back Costly Wild Horse Roundups

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roundup Horses, Government Horses, Animals, Horse Roundup, Wild Horse Roundup, Wild Horses, Horse Roundup Scaled Back, Green News

WASHINGTON — The government said Thursday it will scale back costly roundups of wild horses that some critics contend are inhumane. The U.S. Bu...

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House Votes To Cut BLM Budget Over Wild Horse Roundups In West

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House BLM Budget, Bureau of Land Management, Dan Burton, Interior Department, Blm, Wild Horses, Denver News

RENO, Nev. — The U.S. House approved an amendment on a voice vote Wednesday that would cut the Bureau of Land Management's budget by $2 million ...

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VIDEO: Wild Horse of Vieques Love to Eat Mangoes and Play on the Beach

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Puerto Rico, Tourism, Vieques Puerto Rico, Caribbean, Wild Horses, Mango, Travel, Animals, Travel News
Andy Plesser

Horses love mangoes and in Vieques in the summer there are so many that they rot in streets. Sometimes friendly humans bring mangoes to horses as a...

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VIDEO: Feeding the Wild Horses Organic Mangoes

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Puerto Rico, Tourism, Horses, Travel, Vieques Puerto Rico, Ecotourism, Wild Horses, Travel News
Andy Plesser

There is such an abundance of mangoes on the island in July and August, that we simply can't eat them all, so we gather the rotting ones from the gr...

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Wild Horse Roundup Set To Begin In NW Colorado

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bureau of Land Management, Horses, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Colorado Wild Horses, Blm, Wild Horses, Denver News

MEEKER, Colo. — Helicopters began rounding up wild horses Monday in northwestern Colorado over the objections of animal advocacy groups. The U....

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Wild Horse Advocacy Groups File Lawsuit

AP | JUDITH KOHLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cloud Foundation, Wild Horse Lawsuit, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Blm, Colorado Wild Horses, Wild Horses, Denver News

DENVER — Animal advocacy groups have sought an injunction to stop a roundup of wild horses in northwestern Colorado that's scheduled to begin Mo...

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Green News Report: October 14, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Google, Pesticides, Australia, West Virginia, Epa, Renewable Energy, Obama Administration, Nevada, Clean Energy, Chilean Miners, Green News Report, Coal, Canada, Offshore Drilling, Recycling, Big Oil, Climate Science, Africa, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Gulf of Mexico, Global Warming Deniers, Coal Mining, Hungary, Global Warming, Bpa, Bp, T. Boone Pickens, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Wild Horses, Wind Energy, Appalachia, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Rolling Stone, Green News, Bisphenol A, Climate Legislation, Ethanol, BP Oil Spill, Toxic Waste, Seattle, Unfccc, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Obama li...

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Billionaire's Wife Saves Wild Horses

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: T. Boone Pickens, Animal Rights, Madeleine Pickens, Blm, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wild Horses, Impact News

RENO, Nevada (AP) - Madeleine Pickens, the wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, has bought a sprawling Nevada ranch to serve as a wild horse sa...

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Wife Of Oil Tycoon Helps Save 174 Wild Horses From Slaughter

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Salazar, Mustangs, Livesavers Wild Horse Rescue, Grazing, Pilot Valley, T. Boone Pickens, Wild Horses, Blm, Nevada, Madeleine Pickens, Animals, Grazing Rights, Utah, Interior Department, Green News

RENO, Nev. — With the financial backing of a California winery owner, activists on Saturday purchased almost all 174 horses up for sale at a sta...

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Speak Up for Wild Horses; Send a Letter via Pony Express

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Roundup, President Obama, Wild Mustangs, Wild Horses, Bureau of Land Management, Blm, Obama Administration, Ken Salazar, Madeleine Pickens, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

Over the past few weeks, tens of thousands of you have contacted the federal Bureau of Land Management, encouraging the agency to impose an immediate ...

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Were Mohammed Incarnate Today...BLM Beware!

Sheila Shayon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animal Rights, Horse Round-Ups, Prophet Mohammed, Humane Society, Senator Landrieu, Wild Mustangs, Wild Horses, Blm, Obama, Ken Salazar, Green News
Sheila Shayon

Wild horses and burros are being systematically destroyed in the US by the government agency, Building Land Management, (BLM) and the powers that be and the public at large are turning a blind eye.

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Be Heard by the BLM: Urge an End to Wild Horse Roundups

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humane Society of the United States, Mustang, Roundup, Wild Horses, Bureau of Land Management, Blm, Nevada, Dehydration, Tuscarora, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

Over the past 10 years, the BLM has removed some 74,000 wild horses and burros from the range, and it intends to remove a total of 12,000 horses this year. The program is costly, illogical, and has also had tragic consequences.

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WIld Horse Roundup Delays Viewed As Victory By Protestors

AP | KEN RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nevada, Calico Mountains, Wild Horses and Burros, Utah, Blm, Wild Horses, Wild Horse Roundup, Wild Horse Round Up, Denver News

LAS VEGAS — Federal land managers said Monday they'll delay a roundup of most of the nearly 600 wild horses in a range in eastern Nevada, at lea...

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Sheryl Crow Slams Salazar Over Wild Horses

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mustangs, Wild Horses, Western Horses, Sheryl Crow Horses, Bureau of Land Management, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, Cload Foundation, Sheryl Crow, Denver News

RENO, Nev. — Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as in...

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Wild Horse Roundup To Begin In Nevada Amid Protest

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Calico Mountains, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Interior Department, Ken Salazar, Diane Feinstein, Blm, Wild Horses, Denver News

LAS VEGAS — A two-month capture of about 2,500 wild horses from public and private lands in northern Nevada began Monday amid protests that the ...

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Activists, Celebrities Oppose Plan To Round Up Thousands Of Horses With Helicopters

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wild Horses, Ken Salazar, Interior Department, Wild Horse Opposition, Sheryl Crow, Ed Harris, Bill Maher, Political Humor, Denver News

SPARKS, Nev. — One of the most stirring symbols of the American West – mustangs thundering freely across the range – could be headin...

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Interior Department Plans To Move Thousands Of Wild Horses To Eastern Sanctuaries

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Nick Rahall, Ken Salazar, Wild Horses, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Thousands of mustangs that now roam the West would be moved to preserves in the Midwest and East under a new Interior Department pl...

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Sheryl Crow Tries To Ride To The Rescue Of Wild Horses In The West

AP | MARTIN GRIFFITH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sheryl Crow, Interior Department, Sheryl Crow Activism, Wild Horses, Blm, Sheryl Crow Horses, Nevada, Ken Salazar, Barack Obama, Political Humor, Denver News

RENO, Nev. — Sheryl Crow has spoken out against the war in Iraq and in support of embryonic stem-cell research and efforts to combat global warm...

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