Suit tries to block roundup of nearly 10,000 Nevada mustangs
SCOTT SONNER: ‘Animal rights activists are suing to block what they say is an unprecedented federal plan to capture thousands of wild horses over 10 years in Nevada without the legally required environmental reviews intended to protect the mustangs and U.S. rangeland.
Friends of Animals accuse the U.S. Bureau of Land Management violating the National Environmental Policy Act and other laws by approving the removal of nearly 10,000 mustangs across an area near the Nevada-Utah line almost twice as big as the state of Delaware.
The “roundup decision is unprecedented in size and scope,” according to the suit filed… in U.S. District Court in Reno. It would allow BLM to “continually roundup, remove, drug and castrate wild horses for 10 years after the initial roundup,” the suit said…
Friends of Animals President Priscilla Feral said that in addition to placing male horses at risk of hemorrhaging and infection, those that survive castration “will be robbed of their natural behaviors, putting them at a disadvantage on the range in terms of survival”.’ SOURCE…
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