Return to Freedom s Lawsuit Stops Plan to Engage in Illegal Surgery on Wild Horse Mares
The Bureau of Land Management Decides Not to Proceed with invasive Program Challenged by Return to Freedom
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WASHINGTON, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Return to Freedom (RTF) has been victorious in its efforts to stop barbaric surgeries and illegal research on wild horse mares rounded up from the Confusion Herd in Utah. When the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced its plans, RTF was the first group to sue the BLM, which was trying this illegal action for the third time. Today RTF was contacted by lawyers for the BLM who stated that the BLM would not be proceeding with the surgeries. The controversial and dangerous surgeries – known as ovariectomy via colpotomy – involves the blind grasping of female horses ovaries, twisting and pulling them out of their bodies. RTF was not willing to stand by and let this happen, and fil
Return to Freedom Sues BLM Over Plan to Surgically Sterilize Wild Mares
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LOMPOC, Calif., Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation today filed suit in federal court in California to halt a Bureau of Land Management plan to surgically sterilize wild mares using a procedure that is dangerous, inhumane, and an unnecessary risk especially when proven, well-studied and previously utilized modes of alternative fertility control exist.
Neda DeMayo, founder and president of RTF, a national nonprofit advocacy organization, said BLM s plan ignores the spirit and intent of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, in which Congress explicitly expressed that BLM must protect wild horses from capture, branding, harassment or death. Under BLM s plan, the lives of wild mares would be placed at risk by the very federal agency charged with making decisions benefitting wild horses and burros on behalf of th