Decimation of Wild Horses Continues: Path Forward Plan Supported by Non-Profit Activist Organization Return To Freedom
YREKA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES: Recently in the news, the non-profit organization ‘Return To Freedom’ seems to be trying to distance themselves from their wrong-headed insistence and support for the so-called wild horse management plan called ‘The Path Forward For Management Of BLM’s Wild Horses & Burros’; also known simply as the ‘Path Forward’ (See Images).
However, that ship has sailed and it's no surprise that the disaster stemming from the ‘Path Forward is well underway.
The name ‘Return To Freedom’, sounds great. But it’s a name that seems more like an oxymoron given that the organization using that name supported the 'Path Forward', and it seems that in the past, Return To Freedom was paid to roundup wild horses, resulting in their removal from freedom and shoved into confinement (See Images).
Many intellectually honest wild horse conservationists and non-profit organizations protested the highly-flawed ‘Path Forward’, rightfully calling it the ‘Path to Extinction’ for wild horses.
Many genuine wild horse experts and advocates condemned Return To Freedom's support of the 'Path Forward' requesting that Return To Freedom discontinue its support of that *proposed (*at that time) plan in writing via certified mail on September 16, 2019, as evidenced in this 2019 article: https://tuesdayshorse.wordpress.com/2019/10/14/american-wild-horses-set-on-path-to-extinction/
Now two years later, in recent press releases, Neda DeMayo the president of Return to Freedom has returned onto the media scene, condemning the roundups that were part of the insidious ‘Path Forward’ plan that her organization helped to implement.
American wild horses are teetering on the brink of extinction and they cannot endure any further meddling and blunders by people or organizations who via their actions and posits over decades, have demonstrated that they do not possess the knowledge that is required to posit the sustainable conservation of wild horses in a natural state as intended under law.
And adding insult to injury, Ms. DeMayo, amazingly continues to support of the highly-flawed drugging of wild horses with chemicals as a form of contraception on wild horses, which are in fact native species wildlife. Arguably, this is an example of having less than the requisite scope of knowledge that would allow the realization of more intelligent options for the sustainable, natural conservation of wild horses in America.
Selective Breeding of Native Species American Wild Horses Using Chemicals (PZP and GonaCon)
In concert with some wild horse non-profit organizations and activists such as American Wild Horse Campaign and Return To Freedom, the Bureau of Land Management (‘BLM’) is also engaged in the selective breeding of native species American wild horses via the use of PZP and GonaCon, thereby meddling with natural evolutionary processes that are critical for the long-term survival of wild horses.
When a human decides which animals get to breed and/or which do not, that is by definition, ‘Selective Breeding’.
Selective breeding is contrary to the intent of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act (WFRHBA).
Selective breeding of wild horses by humans disintermediates the evolutionary process of ‘Natural Selection’, which is critical to the continued survival and genetic vigor of wild horses. It is an essential evolutionary process in any co-evolved predator-prey relationship. This is why it is flawed management to maintain wild horse populations that are commingled with livestock populations in Herd Areas that have been made devoid of apex predators.
Depleted predator populations are great for livestock production, but terrible for wild horses, which require and depend upon their co-evolved predators for their genetic vigor via evolutionary Natural Selection.
Regardless of any ‘good intentions’ by some wild horse non-profit organizations and activists, supporting or doing the wrong things to wild horses is harmful and inexcusable.
