Craig Downer to be interviewed on KGPR’s Voices and Views program
For those of you within range of Great Falls, Montana, KGPR 89.9 FM radio, Craig will be interviewed on its Voices and Views program this coming Saturday from 4-5 PM Mountain time concerning what is happening to America’s scant remaining wild horse and burros, and with particular emphasis on what is happening to Montana’s almost totally eliminated wild horses. This refers to the Pryor Mtn. wild horses and plans to reduce this coming July an already substandard and non-viable population. Please tune in and also listen when posted on kgpr.org/ Come to the demonstration 10:30 AM Thursday June 4th, 2015, at 5001 Southgate Drive, Billings, MT.
Friends of Animals and Protect Mustangs filed a lawsuit late last month accusing the federal agency of violating the National Environmental Policy Act with the plans to ship about 200 animals to holding pens and return the others to the range, including an estimated 66 mares that will be injected with the fertility control drug, PZP (porcine zona pellucida). A new filing last week seeking a restraining order says the agency plans are based on an outdated 2010 environmental assessment that doesn’t adequately address the physical, behavioral and social impacts of PZP on wild mares. The lawsuit says the federal agency also ignored other studies back then suggesting PZP likely creates instability in wild horse bands, affects the health of horse and can increase wild horse mortality. “ ’‘Since the 2010 EA, significant new scientific information has become available further demonstrating the negative impacts of PZP,” the lawsuit says. “The PZP vaccine represents the most humane and cost-beneficial alternative to the current, cost-prohibitive wild horse removals,” said the policy statement signed by members of the Humane Society, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals and Animal Welfare Institute.
RENO — A planned roundup of wild horses in the Pine Nut Mountains has been put on hold after wild horse advocates filed a lawsuit alleging the plan violates federal law and would subject horses to the damaging effects of a fertility-control drug.
Wild horse expert sounds alarm As the new Director of Ecology and Conservation at Protect Mustangs and a concerned Carson Valley resident, I attended the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Carson C…
