I just watched a documentary called Wild Horses and Renegades, it shows what the BLM is doing to these Beautiful animals! They round them up and put them in like a concentration camp for horses. :( This has got to stop!
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Sorry to sound a bit ignorant - what is the BLM? Is this something that is happening in the US? I am in New Zealand.
Bureau of Land Management.
The Bureau of Land Management is being cruel to wild horses. Sorry about that emlaw!
Ah I see now - I looked up Bureau of Land Management and it seems they manage public land in some US states, am I right? What are they doing to the horses when they round them up? Is this being monitored by SPCA? Here in NZ they have wild Kaimanawa horses that are rounded up every year by the government and they remove a number of them to keep the numbers down. Most find new homes through adoption, I am not sure what happens to those that don't.
They put them up for adoption, but many dont get adopted. The reasons for the round ups range from too many to drought and other reasons.
I have worked directly in the field to save the wild horses. There are bands in North East Corner of Nevada that BLM lied to try and round them up. They claimed that the horses were starving and running out of food. That they have to remove ALL the horses to save them. What they did not tell the public was that they needed to remove the horses so they can put a cattle lease on the land. Once we found this out we bright it to the light and stopped the removal. Also what people don't see at these round ups are the horses that are killed or left to die. Horses brake their legs and are left for hours or days with no medical attention. Wild donkeys (Burros) are picked up by helicopter and then pushed out to fall to their death 50 feet in the air. This is the dark side of BLM and Round Ups.
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The SPCA lets BLM do what ever they want. NO one tells them what they can and cant do.
The BLM needs to be either shut down or investigated by the Humane Society!
If that's true it's shocking - are the BLM really powerful and above the law? If an ordinary person left a horse to die they would be prosecuted.
The BLM reports to the US government.
I agree 100%! Is there a way to contact monty directly about this? I'm sure he'd care, and he may know more about what us common people can do to stop that mess.
I guess you can ask him about this at askmonty@montyroberts.com
There are many you tube videos dealing with the BLM and the HORRORS they create. It is a highly corrupt organisation!
Sad that omnipotent mankind, in a mere six hundred years, has claimed such an enormous continent, leaving no room for mustangs. Plus, man's culling of wolves and other preditors broke an important link in the mustang's natural management chain. I don't understand how these things are still going on in the 21st century in supposedly the most advanced civilization in the world. Shameful!
Yes it is!!!
The BLM needs to be investigated.
Seems to me people need to learn to leave nature managment to God. I know there are times when you have to handle certain situations as they arise, but really, don't you think they are going overboard? "Kill off all of this certain animal", "oops...never mind, plant a bunch more now!" "Oh no, we planted the wrong kind or too many, now we have to slaughter them all instead of dealing with our mistakes humanly!"
How can a country so full of such educated people have no common sense?
You'd think by now they'd have enough info on the dark side of the blm to shut them down or completely turn them around. must be more money in being cruel. It's disgusting.