The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group, an ally of the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, has started a fundraiser to intervene in the second case filed by the Center for Biological Diversity against the Forest Service.
The description says “They have sued our Forest Service over NEPA and are asking the judge for a halt of the humane management programs. This of course would spell the end of the Salt River wild horses as we know it.”
Halting the humane management program, sometimes referred to as mass sterilization with PZP, would be good for the herd, assuming the mares haven’t been completely ruined by the advocates. It would spell the end of their reign of terror.
Further, “The humane management programs are what have kept the Salt River wild horses safe and healthy, and it has also reduced the foaling rate from 100 foals a year to just one or two per year (for the past 3 years). So why would they attack these programs? Because they want to see the Salt River wild horses removed down to 44 horses!”
Forty-four is greater than zero. At least some horses will be left. If the darting program is not stopped this year, the tipping point will be reached and the herd will slide into irreversible decline, with life unable to keep up with death, just like the Maryland side of Assateague Island.
As for legal action, the advocates should be the target of a criminal probe.
They’re using PZP to eradicate herds that are said to be overpopulated, pose safety hazards to motorists or interfere with animal agriculture, none of which are approved uses of the pesticide.
Note in the photo below the lack of PPE, another violation of the Directions for Use.
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