"Documents Show BLM Wild Horses Sold To Slaughter, Advocates Say"

"There’s more trouble on the horizon for the Bureau of Land Management’s embattled wild horse and burro adoption incentive program.

The American Wild Horse Campaign today released a report the group says shows that since 2019 at least 840 animals removed from federal rangelands, placed into holding pens and corrals, and adopted into private care were later sold at livestock auctions that included known buyers from slaughterhouses in Canada and Mexico.

AWHC says it obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act and from affiliated wild horse rescue groups that attended the auctions."

Scott Streater reports for E&E News July 26, 2022.