From mailing a letter to sending electronic messages to supporting Return to Freedom’s legal and sanctuary work, here are eight ways that you can help America’s horses, both wild and domestic, today:

1–Send a message opposing the Bureau of Land Management’s plan to conduct a spay study on 100 wild mares from the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in Oregon. This public comment period is now closed.

2–Send an electronic message urging your members of Congress to demand that the BLM immediately revoke its new public notification policy for wild horse and burro roundups. BLM has cut the time between issuing a decision to remove wild horses to a roundup starting from 31-76 days down to 14 “when feasible.” This change will further undermine public trust and proper oversight.

3–Send an electronic message to BLM urging the agency to cancel its planned roundup and implement safe, proven and humane fertility control on the Onaqui Mountain Herd Management Area, instead. BLM has announced plans to go forward with the removal of about 80 percent of the wild horses from the beloved herd at the Onaqui HMA in Utah — 465 out of an estimated 586 wild horses.

4–Send an electronic message to the U.S. Forest Service telling it to cancel its planned sale of older wild horses without a prohibition against slaughter. USFS announced just prior to last year’s Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory helicopter roundup that after a short period of time of offering captured horses ages 10-older for adoption and sales with restrictions against slaughter, the agency would sell off any remaining without restriction. RTF and other advocates have filed suit to stop the sale.

5–Donate to RTF’s Wild Horse Defense Fund, which fuels our advocacy, lobbying, selective litigation and on-range monitoring of roundups. RTF is currently involved in two cases pending in federal court, to defend wild horses in California and Utah.

6–Send an electronic message urging your representative to cosponsor the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act. H.R. 961 would permanently ban horse slaughter in the U.S. and end the export of horses for slaughter abroad.

7–Send an electronic message urging your representative to cosponsor H.R. 1400. Previous legislation banned the use of double-deck trailers to transport horses to slaughter because of their inherent cruelty, but non-slaughter bound horses continue to be hauled on these trailers for various reasons. H.R. 1400 would ban the use of double-decker trailers for horses under any circumstances.

8–Sponsor a wild horse or burro. RTF provides a safe haven for more than 500 wild horses and 40 burros, most of which were captured and taken from their home ranges or were at risk of being sent to slaughter. Sponsoring one horse benefits all of our sanctuary residents — and helps us continue to save lives.

California residents: Click to send a message to your State Senator urging support for A.B. 128 (Gloria), which seeks to strengthen our state’s existing law against horse slaughter.

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