The Year 4 Report has been available for months at its darting resources page, but it contained some incriminating information that has been scrubbed from the summary.
So the statement in today’s announcement about releasing the Year 4 results should say re-releasing (and sanitizing) them for its gullible/uninformed/misinformed audience.
The aim of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses is to convince you that removal by pesticide is better than removal by helicopter.
They don’t want you asking why removal occurs or if it’s even necessary.
Let’s set the record straight:
- PZP is a pesticide, not a vaccine. It’s not reversible. Damage begins with the first injection and progresses to sterility after five consecutive years.
- The darting program is now in its fifth year, the point of no return. Many of the mares are now at risk of sterility.
- This is intentional, a design feature, not a drawback. They are not having second thoughts.
- Additional benefits include abnormal sex ratios, increased death rates and loss of genetic diversity.
- The goal is to establish a fully contracepted herd that dies off, as the Park Service envisions for the horses at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
- Sterilizing mares with pesticide-laced darts does not qualify as conservation or protection.
- Permitted grazing occurs on BLM land in the south. Getting rid of the horses helps the ranchers.
- CAAWH advocates for hunters, ranchers and bureaucrats who manage the public lands for their benefit, not wild horses.
The darting program update for October has not been posted as of this morning but is expected this week.
RELATED: The Superiority Complex of the Wild Horse Advocates.
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