What We’re Fighting For

[teaser]The following is a post from the American Wild Horse Preservation.[/teaser]

This is Stan Palmer.

He’s the man the federal government chose to “adopt out” wild horses rounded up earlier this year from the Oregon-Nevada border.

He wasn’t a new choice.

Under a previous contract with the feds, Palmer couldn’t account for the whereabouts of as many as 202 of the 262 wild horses he received — despite being required to do so. We know some of those wild horses ended up at livestock auctions frequented by kill buyers.

The results of his new contract were predictable.

Within days of taking possession of the wild horses, one of Palmer’s employees urged people on Facebook to “show up with your trailer and load em up….need gone asap!!!!” adding, “when they leave my house they are no longer my business.”

Soon after, truckloads of horses were taken from Palmer’s property to unknown destinations. We suspect that many will end up in the slaughter pipeline.

Fortunately, we had the resources we needed to put the Washington bureaucrats responsible for this backdoor slaughter program under scrutiny. And as a result of our efforts, Congress started asking questions and now the bureaucrats are on notice and so is Palmer.

Our work is far from over. We continue to press for a full accounting of the whereabouts of all horses sent to Palmer in 2013, and to make sure that the government never again pays this Mississippi middleman to launder horses into the slaughter pipeline.

A $10 donation from you right now enables us to escalate our fight in Washington to reform federal wild horse and burro policy so that these national icons remain wild and free on the range where they belong.

We can’t continue this work without your support.