Photo by Robert Hammer of Wild Horse Tourist
Two Ways to Fight this Plan
1. Sign on to the petition below, which will be included with AWHC's comments on the Environmental Assessment of the plan.
2. Submit your own comments through BLM's website until February 20, 2020.
Thank you for using your voice for America's wild horses!
BLM Fillmore Field Office,
As a taxpayer who cares about our nation's wild horses and burros, I am very concerned about the proposed Swasey HMA roundup, removal and sterilzation plan.
I oppose the BLM's intent to manage a portion of the herd as non-reproducing via surgical sterilization of mares. The National Academy of Sciences warned that removing the ovaries of wild mares was "inadvisable for field application" due to the risk of bleeding and infection.
Surgical sterilization is inhumane and will take the wild out of wild horses by destroying their natural behaviors. The BLM must drop these procedures from consideration.
I ask that the BLM instead pursue a more robust plan for the use of the humane, reversible and non-invasive fertility control vaccine, PZP in the HMA now to eliminate the need for removals in future. PZP is a scientifically-proven and cost-effective approach for reducing wild horse population growth rates and numbers over time that is recommended by the NAS and widely supported by mainstream humane and wild horse protection organizations.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned