American Wild Horse Preservation
Return to Freedom, the parent organization of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund, and community horse advocates praised the signing of a new cooperative agreement with the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) as a first step in establishing a humane approach to the control of the historic Virginia Range horses.
The agreement signed this week between Return to Freedom and the NDA will allow the sanctuary organization to purchase captured Virginia Range horses from the state for $100 and work with local groups to place them into permanent homes. Previously, the state had been sending captured mustangs to a livestock auction frequented by kill buyers who purchase horses for slaughter.
