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Mustang deaths up to 26 in Nev wild horse roundup

By MARTIN GRIFFITH, Associated Press Writer Friday, January 29, 2010 (01-29) 16:17 PST Reno, Nev. (AP) -- Wild-horse advocates criticized federal land managers after the number of mustang deaths so far in a government roundup on the range north of Reno nearly tripled from a week ago, going from nine to 26. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Friday reported four more deaths stemming from its roundup in ... Full story

NEWS OF MORE WILD HORSE DEATHS ROCKS BLM AS AGENCY RESTRICTS PUBLIC ACCESS TO CRUEL ROUNDUPS

Newly Released Video of Downed Horse at Gov’t Facility Shows Plight of Captured Horses - Latest Fatalities Include Horses Dying from Broken Neck, Spinal Injury, Hoof Abscesses, Pelvis Injury Count now stands at 22 fatalities; up to 25 injuries & 20 spontaneous abortions Washington, DC - January 28, 2010 - As the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reels amidst mounting horse deaths resulting from its unnecessary and ... Full story

Statement on St. Lucie County Vote to Prohibit Cruel Elephant Training Device

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE St. Lucie County, Fla. (January 26, 2010) - In a major victory for elephants, the St. Lucie County Board of Commissioners in Florida made it very clear that the use of cruel bullhooks on elephants is not welcome in their county. The commission today voted to allow the National Elephant Center (NEC), an elephant holding facility and breeding facility, to proceed, but applied ... Full story

Help For Animals Arrives In Haiti

(Port-au-Prince, Haiti - January 25, 2010) - A coalition of animal protection organizations including In Defense of Animals (IDA) has arrived in Haiti to aid animals left imperiled by the devastating earthquake. The team represents the Animal Relief Coalition for Haiti (ARCH), a coalition that was formed specifically to deal with the Haiti crisis. The ARCH team is meeting with officials from the Haitian government as ... Full story

Groups to expose hidden cruelty behind elephant center proposed for St. Lucie County

MEDIA ADVISORY Press Conference Monday Ft. Pierce, Florida (January 25, 2010) - Representatives of national, state and local animal protection organizations will release information documenting serious concerns about the treatment of elephants at the proposed National Elephant Center (NEC) in St. Lucie County, including graphic photos and video that illustrate the circus-style elephant training and cruel devices that will be utilized at the facility. When: Monday, ... Full story

Judge denies horse advocates' appeal

Judge denies horse advocates' appeal
By BRETT FRENCH Of The Gazette Staff | Posted: Saturday, January 23, 2010 11:50 pm DAVID GRUBBS/Gazette Staff Stallions playfully fight, a precursor to more dangerous battles for mares as stallions seek to start their own band and breed. Until then, the males wander in small bachelor groups. The construction of water sources ... Full story

BLM criticized over mustang deaths in NV roundup

The Associated Press Posted: 01/23/2010 04:44:16 PM PST RENO, Nev.—Wild-horse advocates are calling for an independent investigation after the deaths of nine mustangs so far in a government roundup of the animals on the range north of Reno. San Rafael, Calif.-based In Defense of Animals and Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Cloud Foundation criticized the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's handling of the roundup after two more deaths this past ... Full story

GOV'T ROUNDUP KILLS MORE WILD HORSES AS HELICOPTER CONTRACTOR RUNS FOAL SO HARD HOOVES DESTROYED AND FOAL KILLED

BLM Accused of Secrecy, Denying Full Public Access To Roundup And Gives Only Glimpse of Deaths & Suffering Washington, DC – January 22, 2010 – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is now revealing that two more wild horses have died and up to 25 are under treatment for injuries as a result of the helicopter stampede and roundup currently underway in the Calico Mountains ... Full story

Leading Elephant Expert Joins In Defense of Animals in Condemning St. Louis Zoo for Deadly Breeding Practices

San Rafael, Calif. - In Defense of Animals (IDA), joined by a top authority on elephant behavior and biology, today strongly criticized the St. Louis Zoo for recklessly breeding elephants. The charge follows an announcement by the zoo that the elephant Rani is again pregnant, despite serious complications following the last two births at the zoo and the threat posed by a deadly elephant virus. In ... Full story

Watchdog Organization Asks NIH To Stop $15 Million OHSU Primate Center Expansion

Demonstration at OHSU will protest the waste of federal stimulus funding and OHSU's pattern of negligent care of monkeys Portland, Ore. - In Defense of Animals (IDA) and other animal advocates will be outside the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) main hospital on Thursday, January 21, carrying signs with messages such as, “Expand your circle of compassion, not your primate center.” Activists will distribute information ... Full story

Sacramento Horse Advocates Hold Rally Against Wild Horse Roundups

Controversy Grows Over Gov't Acceleration of Removing Wild Horses From Western Public Lands Sacramento, Calif. - Wild horse advocates from In Defense of Animals (IDA), The Cloud Foundation, and other members of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign Coalition, will hold a rally Thursday, January 21, at 11 a.m. in front of the State Capitol Building, to call attention to the Obama Administration's massive roundup and ... Full story

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ESCALATES ASSAULT ON WILD HORSES: 2,000+ MORE MUSTANGS TARGETED IN NEVADA

Ignoring public outrage, government hits milestone: number of wild horses in BLM warehouses exceeds those left on the range Washington, DC (January 19, 2010) – Ignoring growing public outrage over the unnecessary mass roundups of wild horses, the Obama Administration has announced its next victims:  2,000 mustangs living in two herd management complexes in eastern Nevada . According to In Defense of Animals (IDA), the Bureau ... Full story

Elliot M. Katz: BLM has mismanaged public lands to benefit ranchers

When the government misinforms the public and puts special interests over what's best for the general public, citizens become outraged. So it is with the government's mismanagement of wild horses and burros. Congress protected the wild horses as living symbols of freedom and important parts of our national heritage, but for nearly 40 years, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has ignored this mandate. The agency has ... Full story

Help Give Queenie the Gift of Safety

In Defense of Animals (IDA) has spent the past two years following the lives of Tina, Jewel and Queenie, three Asian elephants that were part of the Shrine Circus under the care of Will Davenport. Davenport has been cited with multiple USDA violations and failure to properly care for the three elephants. Thanks to IDA’s work and public outcry, Tina and Jewel were finally removed and sent ... Full story

Rally aims to stop Nevada mustang roundups

(NN&V Staff) – Wild horse and burro advocates and In Defense of Animals (IDA) are organizing a Wednesday rally in San Francisco. The mustang defenders will gather at noon in front of Senator Diane Feinstein’s office building (One Post Street at Montgomery) asking the senator to help halt the federal Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) massive roundup of thousands of mustangs living in the public Calico ... Full story

Lawsuit Stalls Wild Horse Roundup

As a result of a lawsuit filed by In Defense of Animals and ecologist Craig Downer, the Bureau of Land Management will delay the wild horse roundup in the Calico Complex Herd Management Area from December 7 to December 28. The Calico Complex lies within the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area in Nevada. According to IDA, the roundup is illegal because: The ... Full story

Another BLM Wild Horse Roundup: Submit Comments Today!

Removal of 550 horses in eastern Nevada set to begin next month Just When We Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse - Government Claims More Than 670,000 Acres Can Only Support 100 to 200 Horses Dear IDA Members: We told you this was going to be a long, hard fight - thank you for sticking with us ... Full story

Sunday: New York City Horse Advocates Hold Rally Against Wild Horse Roundups

Controversy grows over removal of wild horses from public land New York, N.Y. - Wild horse advocates will hold a rally Sunday at 1 p.m. in Columbus Circle, to call attention to the Obama Administration's massive roundup and removal of wild horses from public lands in the West. The largest such roundup is now underway in the Calico Mountains public lands complex in northwestern Nevada. The ... Full story

In Defense of Animals Announces Reward in Killing of Animals

Eleven Winona, Mississippi Dogs and Cats Shot and Poisoned Winona, Mississippi - In the first week of 2010, nine dogs and one cat were poisoned, and one dog was shot, in a Winona, Mississippi neighborhood. The Mid-South Office of In Defense of Animals (IDA-Project Hope) is offering a $500 reward for Information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrator(s). The neighborhood surrounds New Hope ... Full story

In Defense of Animals Releases 2009 "Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants" List

San Rafael, Calif. (January 12, 2010) – The 2009 list of the Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants, released today by In Defense of Animals (IDA), exposes the hidden suffering of elephants in zoos. In its sixth year, the list highlights how confinement of these giants to tiny enclosures wreaks havoc on their physical and psychological health and leads to premature death for many. For the ... Full story

News Report Collection – Wild Horses Campaign

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NEWS REPORTS LA Times - Obama’s back: A roundup of gatecrashers, polls, pols and wild horses (January 4, 2010) Reno Gazette-Journal - Two Mustangs Die In Calico Roundup (January 4, 2010) Associate Press - Wild Mustang Roundup Draws Fire (January 3, 2010) Epoch Times - Controversial roundup of wild horses underway (January 3, 2010) New York Times - Debate Grows ... Full story

The Salt Lake Tribune: BLM postpones wild horse roundup

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is putting off plans to round up about nearly 200 wild horses in a remote western Utah mountain range. The agency had planned the roundup for Jan. 15, but it's been rescheduled for July so the BLM can conduct an environmental analysis before proceeding. Snowy conditions would have made the roundup more difficult and the delay also gives the agency ... Full story

WASHINGTON SAYS WHOA! TO BLM WILD HORSE ROUNDUP IN UTAH

Capture of 200 horses postponed after massive public outcry Fillmore, Utah (January 7, 2010). . . . After receiving thousands of protest emails from supporters of In Defense of Animals (IDA), officials in Washington , DC have ordered the Bureau of Land Management to postpone the roundup 200 horses living peacefully in the Confusion Mountains in Utah. The agency had planned to begin the roundup next week, ... Full story

MISSISSIPPI ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER FIRED FOR ANIMAL DEATHS

For Immediate Release Grenada, Mississippi (January 6, 2010) - On behalf of In Defense of Animals, an animal-protection organization with over 85,000 members, Debbie Young, a volunteer at IDA's Project Hope Sanctuary in Grenada, Mississippi, is filing an affidavit for each animal shot to death by Canton and Madison County, Mississippi, animal control officer, Alonzo Esco. On Tuesday, January 5, the Board of Aldermen approved the ... Full story

Gov't Autopsy Reveals: BLM Ran Foal with Birth Defect to His Death - Colt's Final Moments Filled with Terror

BLM Captures More Than 299 Wild Horses in First Week of Calico Roundup Scheduled To Last Two Months Winnemucca , Nevada - A government autopsy on a young foal run to death in a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) helicopter stampede of wild horses living in the Calico Mountain Complex in northwestern Nevada sheds more light on the trauma befalling these iconic animals at the hands ... Full story

Saving the Wild Horses

Paragraphs by Paul Miller When Marin activists are in action and when Willie Nelson stops singing and starts swearing, it's time to take notice. Last week the Bureau of Land Management helicopters drove thousands of wild horses off their God-given pastures into trapping pens on private Nevada land.  Before the drive, 20 protesters from In Defense of Animals, a foundation based in San Rafael, led more than ... Full story

Los Angeles Times' Top of the Ticket Mentions IDA's Criticism of BLM Roundups

Speaking of political minorities, In Defense of Animals points out that Obama's Interior Department continues a new roundup of wild horses on public and private Western lands these days, despite a federal judge's suggested postponement. The animal ancestors of early-day mustangs, the wild horses are "removed" because the Bureau of Land Management says the freeloading horses compete for forage with private cattle, ... Full story

Death Toll Rises In Nevada Wild Horse Roundup

Winnemucca, Nevada - An older mare "euthanized" by rifle, orphaning her young foal, and a six-month old foal who collapsed and died after a helicopter chase are among the first week's victims of the controversial Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) wild horse roundup in the Calico Mountains Complex in northwestern Nevada , In Defense of Animals (IDA) announced today. In addition to the fatalities, a stallion ... Full story

Los Angeles Horse Advocates To Hold Wednesday Rally Opposing to Wild Horse Roundups

Los Angeles, Calif. - Wild horse advocates will hold a rally Wednesday at 11 a.m. in front of Senator Diane Feinstein's Los Angeles office building, asking the senator to help secure a moratorium on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups of wild horses living on public lands in the West. The rally coincides with week two of a massive BLM roundup and ... Full story
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