such as darting female horses with birth control medication, instead.

Currently, the #BureauOfLandManagement uses low-flying helicopters to drive herds of #WildHorses to exhaustion, chasing them mercilessly until they can be rounded up and removed from their homes and families. Swirling panic and unforgiving terrain frequently combine to cause excruciating body and face lacerations from barbed wire fencing, snapped necks, and isolated, lonely deaths.

#Trump & #Republicans have tried this before:

#WildHorses could be sold for #slaughter in Trump #budget plan

#Wildlife #conservation #horses
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/wild-horses-sold-slaughter-trump-budget-plan

This could have devastating consequences — not just for the few vanishing mustangs still roaming free, but for the thousands #incarcerated in govt holding facilities.

…When we talk about BLM’s “wild horse programs,” we are talking about >60k #WildHorses & burros trapped in claustrophobic, sometimes dangerously #overcrowded govt pens, where #animals have no room to gallop, family bonds are shattered, & some #horses mysteriously disappear into the #slaughter pipeline despite federal protections.