BIDEN’S (OTHER) BLM TERRORISTS: Wild horse roundups bring surge in advocacy with protest near White House
Helicopter roundups of wild horses are notorious for their cruelty and the suffering they inflict. Horses will be chased for miles in the summer heat to the point of utter exhaustion, and some will sustain injuries or even be killed.
GLOBE NEWSWIRE: Descended from horses used by pioneers and native tribes in the late 1800’s, the Onaqui horses are known for their robust beauty and their ability to thrive in the harsh environment of the Great Basin Desert of western Utah… But the Onaqui horses are facing a grim future. On July 12, the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] will use helicopters to chase, trap, and remove most of them from their home range on Utah’s Great Basin Desert. Helicopter roundups of wild horses are notorious for their cruelty and the suffering they inflict on the animals.
Horses will be chased for miles in the summer heat to the point of utter exhaustion, and some will sustain injuries or even be killed. There are new foals and elderly horses in the herd who will be in jeopardy of being left behind, wounded, or even killed during the terror, chaos, and confusion of the stampede into the traps. From there the horses will lose the two things that mean the most to them – their families and their freedom.
They will be shipped by truck to BLM corrals where they will languish in barren feedlot conditions, awaiting an uncertain future. After being sorted and separated, the BLM will offer the animals for adoption, a process that poses a grave threat to their lives, as it has been recently reported that the BLM’s wild horse and burro adoption program is sending horses to their deaths in foreign slaughter plants.
The BLM claims there is insufficient forage for the horses on their HMA, yet the agency has allocated wild horses only between 9 and 15 percent of the resources on public lands, while livestock are allocated between 85 and 91 percent… The roundups are also planned for tens of thousands of wild horse and burro herds across the western United States, as the BLM heeds the wishes of the livestock industry and scrambles to remove as many wild equines as possible. Unless that is, they are stopped…
In April, a coalition of more than 70 groups sent a letter to Secretary Haaland calling for a freeze on grazing permits and an elimination of livestock grazing on all wild horse and burro Herd Management Areas. There has been no response from Haaland despite the media contacting the Secretary’s Office and the White House, who declined to comment.
The lack of response from the Biden Administration, combined with Haaland’s testimony before the House Appropriations Committee on April 20th that the Dept. of Interior is “in agreement with the plan of the previous Administration,” prompted a second letter in May directly to the President himself. Signed by more than 90 groups, rescues, and businesses, and more than 1,100 individuals, the letter called for Biden to immediately place a moratorium on the mass helicopter roundups. There has since been no response from the White House. Visit the campaign website at www.SaveTheOnaqui.org for more details on the rally and future events…
Animal Wellness Action and The Wild Beauty Foundation have just released a short film produced by Ashley Avis, the director of Disney’s 2020 film “Black Beauty” urgently pleading with President Joe Biden to intercede and stop the cruel helicopter roundup of the popular and beloved Onaqui wild horse herd in western Utah. The film precedes a “Wild Horse and Burro Freedom Rally” held Friday, July 9th, at 10:00 a.m. near the White House as a last resort to raise public awareness of the plight of the wild horses, who face a devastating BLM operation beginning July 13th that will send the majority of the herd to an uncertain future, including the possibility of slaughter in foreign meat plants.
The Washington, D.C. event follows a rally the groups held with actress Katherine Heigl, the Jason Debus Heigl Foudation, the Cloud Foundation, and Red Bird’s Trust, on the steps of the Utah state capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah last Friday. Following the rally, leaders from the event traveled to the Great Basin Desert west of Salt Lake City, home to the Onaqui horses, and there documented with photos and video the healthy condition of the horses and the abundant forage, contradicting the Bureau of Land Management’s false narrative that the horses are overpopulated, starving, and destroying the vast Onaqui range…
“With thousands upon thousands of calls and emails to the BLM, Congress, and President Biden, the American people have spoken overwhelmingly in support of the federally-protected Onaqui horses,” said Scott Beckstead, director of campaigns for the Center for A Humane Economy. “In its arrogance, the BLM has thus far ignored the public’s will and instead is bent on appeasing commercial livestock grazers. It will fall upon our president to step in and do the right thing to protect these American icons, but he must do so quickly before the helicopters take to the desert sky”…
“It’s time for President Joe Biden to face the voting public and explain why his Administration continues to stonewall the American people on wild horse protection,” said Cameron Ring, president of Andromeda Pictures. “The Onaqui wild horses in Utah are a national treasure that must saved”…
“President Biden can either go down in history as the man who saved the Onaqui or the man who let them be rounded up by helicopter chase, purged from their home, and doomed them with a one-way ticket to slaughter in Mexico or Canada,” said Marty Irby, executive director at Animal Wellness Action… “This is our last chance to save these iconic horses,” said Ashley Avis, director of Disney’s Black Beauty film and president of The Wild Beauty Foundation. SOURCE…
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