The U.S. government – via the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – has a new plan to kill off 98% of wild horses in an area of Nevada that spans approximately 10,000 acres.
Why? Because ranchers want to push horses off this land so they can reclaim it and use it for their cattle-raising meat production efforts.
Sign the petition to speak out and demand the U.S. Bureau of Land Management abandon its sickening plans to kill off almost an entire herd of wild horses!
Right now, this majestic herd of wild, free horses stands at around 518 individuals strong. But under the BLM’s new plan, it will cut that number down to only 7 to 10 horses left.
The agency is insisting that this extermination plan is supposedly “safe, efficient, and humane.” But rounding up and slaughtering hundreds of innocent animals is not – and never can be – humane.
We don’t know exactly how the government plans to massacre these animals. But one of the ways that BLM has pursued mass horse slaughters in the past has been through the use of helicopters to terrify and round up the animals. Sometimes it has even actively shot these animals down from the sky.
Regardless of the method the government chooses, this is inexcusable and beyond cruel. These horses have the right to live.
They’re not doing anything wrong! Just because some profit-obsessed, greedy ranchers want the horses’ land, doesn’t mean the government should be working to exterminate these animals.
Help us raise enough awareness so that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management realizes it can’t get away with this.
Sign the petition to demand a reversal of this cruel massacre plan!
This article by Nicholas Vincent was first published by One Green Planet on 3 September 2025. Lead Image Credit: Faith Photography of Nevada/Shutterstock.
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