The Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses would never let the BLM get away with it, according to a news flash dated March 14, but they’ll do it as often as possible.
The idea was floated in a FY25 budget proposal, supposedly, but a link to the document was not provided.
Sterilization undermines genetic viability but also disrupts natural behaviors essential for the survival of wild herds.
Curiously, the nonprofit, a leader in nonmotorized removal, runs a sterilization program on the Virginia Range, now in its fifth year, while the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, a partner organization, does the same in the Tonto National Forest.
PZP tricks the immune system into attacking the ovaries.
It’s a pesticide, not a vaccine.
It’s not reversible. The sperm-blocking theory doesn’t correlate with the observed facts, such as the flat-lining of the herd on Assateague Island.
Damage begins with the first injection, leading to sterility in five years. Such animals are said to be “self-boosting.”
CAAWH said it “will deploy all necessary resources to prevent any mass permanent sterilization plan from becoming law” (but will actively solicit such arrangements through cooperative agreements).
Western Horse Watchers Association 