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Rewilding and Wild Horse Preservation Orgs File In Court to Protect First Amendment Rights

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Wednesday, August 3, 2022

(case number: 2:22-cv-01200)

Key Points: 
  • (case number: 2:22-cv-01200)
    The current operation targets 800 burros and 200 wild horses.
  • A roundup in the same complex in 2020 captured 1,653 wild horses and 220 wild burros.
  • Without the use of modern day science and transparency, our government is ignoring their obligation to the American tax payer."
  • On the first day of operations BLM reported that 174 wild burros were captured, nearly 25% of the targeted goal.

CANA FOUNDATION: Environmental and Wild Horse Orgs File In Federal Court Against Lack of Data In Accelerated Wild Horse and Burro Removal Plans

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Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Today, CANA Foundation and Wild Horse Education filed suit in federal district court to protect the Blue Wing Complex from the antiquated and unscientific Environmental Assessment (EA) BLM is using to justify ten years of Wild horse and Burro removals without public process.

Key Points: 
  • Today, CANA Foundation and Wild Horse Education filed suit in federal district court to protect the Blue Wing Complex from the antiquated and unscientific Environmental Assessment (EA) BLM is using to justify ten years of Wild horse and Burro removals without public process.
  • The US GovernmentIgnores its own laws and continues the unchecked decimation of America's Public range lands, and its inhabitants.
  • The organizationsreached out to the Nevada State Director in a letter challenging the agency justifications moving forward.
  • Laura Leigh of Wild Horse Education explains, "Stakeholder engagement is skewed consistently to favor industry; if you represent an environmental interest you are repeatedly ignored.