- Monday, July 12, 2010, 16:03
- Breaking News, Horses
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Seven Deaths on First Day of Roundup Makes This Deadliest Roundup of the Year
Tuscarora, NV (July 12, 2010) – Today, In Defense of Animals (IDA), an international animal protection and rescue organization, is calling for a summer moratorium of all roundups and is blasting the Department of Interior which, despite a federal lawsuit and legal appeal, began a controversial roundup of wild horses in Northeastern ...
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- Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 12:07
- Breaking News, Horses
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Planned Capture of 2,000 Mustangs and Burros Sets Stage For Court Battle Over
Federal Wild Horse Management Program
Washington, DC (June 22, 2010) – Today, the national law firm of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney P.C. (BIR) notified the U.S. Department of Justice that it intends to file suit over the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) proposed roundup and removal of 1,855 wild horses and 210 burros in ...
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- Monday, May 24, 2010, 16:00
- Breaking News, Horses
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Plaintiffs Promise To Continue Fight to Halt BLM Illegal Practices
Washington, D.C. (May 24, 2010) – Today, the Honorable Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court in Washington DC, dismissed on standing and mootness the lawsuit brought against U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) by animal protection organization In Defense of Animals (IDA), wildlife ecologist Craig Downer and ...
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- Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 14:55
- In the News, Wild Horses
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Reno – Late last year the Bureau of Land Management attempted to round up more than 1500 horses from the Calico Mountain Complex. That roundup occurred despite court action to stop it. Those horses are now in Western Nevada in a brand new holding facility.
1922 horses were gathered off the Calico Range last winter under quite a bit of controversy. But the story didn't end ...
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- Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 13:58
- In the News, Wild Horses
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Dr. Elliot Katz, graduate of Cornell Veterinary School, founded In Defense of Animals (IDA) in 1983. “In Defense of Animals' objectives are to stop the round ups, keep the horses on their home range, end the senseless killing of all equines and do all in our power to return the rounded-up horses to the home range ...
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- Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 6:55
- In the News, Wild Horses
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Written by Ken Ritter, The Associated Press (Monday, February 8, 2010; 7:27 PM)
Las Vegas -- Federal land managers said Monday they'll delay a roundup of most of the nearly 600 wild horses in a range in eastern Nevada, at least until after the herd's spring foaling season.
Advocates fighting to stop mustang roundups in the West said they think their threat to file a lawsuit stopped ...
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- Monday, February 8, 2010, 13:35
- Breaking News, Horses
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495 Wild Horses in Eastern Nevada Get Reprieve
Washington, DC (February 8, 2010) -- The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) postponed the proposed roundup of nearly 500 wild horses in the Eagle Herd Management Area in eastern Nevada, just three days after the national law firm of Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney notified the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that it would sue to stop the ...
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- Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 9:33
- Breaking News, Horses
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Dozens of wild horse advocates plan to go before a federal advisory panel here on Monday to try to persuade public land managers to change their plan to relocate thousands of free-roaming mustangs from the West to preserves elsewhere.
By MARTIN GRIFFITH
Associated Press Writer
SPARKS, Nev. —
Dozens of wild horse advocates plan to go before a federal advisory panel here on Monday to try to persuade public ...
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- Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 9:30
- Breaking News, Horses
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Lawsuit aims to stop removal of 2,500 wild horses in northwestern Nevada
Reno, NV (December 5, 2009) – On Monday, December 7, In Defense of Animals (IDA), horse advocacy organizations and private citizens will gather in Reno, Nevada to urge the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board to recommend an immediate moratorium on all wild horse and burro roundups and a ...
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