DENVER — The government is considering plans to euthanize 45,000 wild horses if they aren’t adopted.
An advisory board to the Bureau of Land Management voted to recommend euthanizing wild horses and burros being kept in holding facilities across the country, according to National Geographic, but the BLM has not voted on the plan. If the BLM approves the recommendation, it would then have to be approved by Congress. “The grim plan would be the biggest horse slaughter in history and wipe out more than half of all wild horses remaining in the U.S.,” the group In Defense of Animals stated in a press release Monday.
Now the Humane Society of the United States is urging people to send a message to the Secretary of Interior and the Director of BLM asking them to call off the plan.