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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Mar 12, 2024

Removing wild horses from their wild homes to be placed in #corrals and auctioned off puts these sensitive animals at risk. It also costs #taxpayers millions of dollars.

State officials and community members have expressed #outrage at the proposal to remove the historic animals, according to AP News.

“They’re like cultural artifacts, almost, because they reflect several generations of western North Dakota ranchers and #NativePeople,” researcher Castle McLaughlin

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https://ladyfreethinker.org/a-qa-with-cana-foundation-the-importance-of-wild-horses/

A Q+A with CANA Foundation: The Importance of Wild Horses

What started as a child’s love of horses has grown into a critical and life-saving movement to save wild horses and rewild habitats by a powerhouse protector. Manda Kalimian, the founder of Long Island-based nonprofit CANA Foundation, has been on a mission for more than a decade to educate people — and the U.S. government — about the important ecological role that wild horses have on grasslands and climate change. Using science-backed research and innovative DNA testing, the CANA Foundation has helped establish that wild horses, as we know them today, have been in the United States for thousands of years longer

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