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🧵 Since our sanctuary opened in 1998, it has provided a safe haven for hundreds of at-risk #wildhorses and burros, including the nearly 500 now in our care. We’ve also played a role in saving another 2,500 animals from starvation, neglect and the foreign slaughter pipeline.

Learn more and take action: returntofreedom.org/blm-wild-horse… #wildhorses

The new figures underscore the futility of business as usual. It brings the BLM's annual population estimate back to within 723 animals of where it stood five years ago — despite removing more than 63,000 #wildhorses and burros from the range since then. ⬇️

Happy St. Patrick's Day! — The mountains around our San Luis Obispo, Calif., satellite wild horse and burro sanctuary are called the Irish Hills, so named because several Irish families settled there. It must have looked a lot like home. #wildhorses

Learn more about this special event + buy tickets at: returntofreedom.org/spirit-of-the-… #wildhorses

Join us at our Lompoc, Calif., flagship sanctuary as we celebrate the Spirit of the Horse, the start of our 2026 program season, and Spirit’s 31st birthday! Learn more ⬇️ #wildhorses

Providing feed and care 365 days a year for nearly 500 wild horses and burros is a constant challenge for our nonprofit. You can chip in (any amount helps!) or sign up to become one of our beloved monthly hay sponsors by tapping donate in our bio.

❤️ Thank you to all of the big-hearted donors who keep our sanctuary’s #wildhorses and burros well fed and happy! This delivery of more than 250 bales of hay will last the horses and burros at our flagship sanctuary about 3 weeks.

The Bureau of Land Management plans to begin capturing and removing 2,075 #wildhorses and 425 burros from Nevada rangelands starting on Sunday. Read more and take action: returntofreedom.org/blm-plans-to-b…

Miss our webinar about the effort to ban horse slaughter? Check out a recording of “The SAFE Act from Start to Finish” and learn ways you can take action at returntofreedom.org/watch-our-webi…

Register for the webinar: returntofreedom.org/sign-up-for-ou… #horses

Please join us for a special webinar on the fight to end horse slaughter, from the introduction of the first federal bill to ban it to where it stands now — and what you can do to help. ⬇️ #horses

If your near Merrill, WI then Stop by Tb Scott free library & check out #SpiritStallionOfTheCimarron Display by Esther Trostle.

The roundup was deemed an emergency by the BLM “due to severe drought conditions and lack of forage” on 30,000 acres that are not managed for #wildhorses. Read more / take action: returntofreedom.org/344-wild-horse…

You can help: The bipartisan Ejiao Act (H.R. 5544) would ban the sale or transport of ejiao or products made with ejiao. To send a message to your members of Congress in support of the bill, see returntofreedom.org/current_action…

Exploding demand for ejiao, a gelatin made from donkey skins, is decimating donkey populations worldwide and harming impoverished people who rely on these important animals.

Miss our webinar about the ejiao trade’s impact of global donkey populations? Watch it now for free at the link in our bio or go to our website's homepage.

How to help: Tap Take Action in our bio or go to returntofreedom.org/current_action… to send a message to your members of Congress urging them to back the SAFE Act and call for a vote. Call (202) 224-3121. Urge your members of Congress to support the SAFE Act (H.R. 1661 / S. 775).

One change — one word — can prevent thousands of inhumane deaths each year. That change would also place a lasting ban on horse slaughter in the United States. Right now, only language inserted into annual funding bills stands in the way of slaughterhouses reopening.

🧵 More than 21,000 American horses die in foreign slaughterhouses, on average, every year. With one word — “equines” — Congress can an end an ugly business profiting a handful of unscrupulous kill buyers.