AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIG
PO Box 1733, Davis, CA 95617 americanwildhorsecampaign.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Defends Americas wild horses and burros to protect their freedom, preserve their habitat, and promote humane standards of treatment; Creates and implements humane solutions to keep wild horses and burros wild and safe; Rescues wild horses and burros in need, when necessary and possible; Increases the publics awareness of and appreciation for wild horses and burros as an integral part of the Americas ecological and cultural landscape; and Works through public awareness and educational programs, coalition and partnership building and strategic litigation to keep wild horses and burros wild and free on our public lands.

Protection and preservation of America's wild horses and burros through public awareness, education, advocacy, and implementation of humane management and habitat conservation programs.

Driving Change Through Awareness and Empowerment: Advocacy/EducationAWHC is the leading voice for wild horse and burro protection in America. In 2019, we were mentioned and/or featured in nearly 100 media reports by national and regional media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and public radio. Our high profile public awareness campaigns aimed at stopping wild horse roundups and the eradication of key wild herds and reforming the federal wild horse management program reached millions of citizens. We also continued to empower our supporters to speak up by creating easy-to-use action alerts to weigh in on policy matters affecting wild horses and burros, generating 800,000 public comments and petition signatures on key policy issues.

Legal Precedents for Protection: LitigationOur expert legal team continued to accumulate precedent setting wins in 2019, including legal action that prompted the BLM to drop plans to conduct risky and cruel surgical sterilization experiments on wild mares in Oregon. Our lawsuit against the Forest Service successfully delayed the sale of California wild horses for slaughter, providing sufficient time for Congress to ban the practice entirely. Another of our legal actions secured a federal court ruling ordering the BLM to stop excluding foals and weanlings from official roundup counts in Wyoming, putting the brakes on BLMs strategy of removing more horses from the range than disclosed by not counting foals in overall removal totals.Our legal efforts continue to provide a critical defense for wild horses and burros in the West against efforts by the government and special interests to destroy these iconic animals and reduce their habitat.

Supporting Communities; Saving Local Herds (Field programs)We work closely with our local coalition partners in key areas of the West to protect and humanely manage local herds and our strategic, technical and financial support has allowed communities to preserve and protect numerous wild horse herds, including the Salt River wild horses in Arizona and the Fish Springs and Virginia Range wild horses in Nevada. In Arizona, we participated in a months long official collaborative process initiated by the Forest Service, advocating for a humane management plan for the Salt River horse herd in the Tonto National Forest. We also provided financial support for local PZP fertility control programs in Arizona and Colorado and darting support to a similar local program in Utah. These programs use the PZP vaccine, delivered via remote darting to wild mare to humanely reduce population growth rates and herd size over time. And, we entered into a Cooperative Agreement with the Nevada Department of Agriculture to implement a humane fertility control program for wild horses in the Virginia Range in the greater Reno area. The program quickly became the largest wild horse fertility control program in the world. With a team of 20 volunteers, we delivered 1,299 fertility control treatments to 827 wild mares in the Virginia Range herd 2019, nearly double the number of treatments delivered by the BLM in herds across the West. We also sponsored classes to certify fertility control darters and train volunteers in Technical Large Animal Rescue for the Virginia Range horses.

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