Several articles and television features aired recently favoring chemical fertility control
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“This week saw a detailed story in National Geographic, ‘Can Birth Control Save Our Wild Horses?’ in which volunteer darter Nancy Kilian discussed how fertility control helps keep these iconic animals "healthy and free,’" they noted in a news release. “A video also recently aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation filmed about a group of Alberta volunteers, who are darting wild horses with the PZP vaccine to spare them from roundups and death.”
The coverage follows a recent story on fertility control in the Wall Street Journal and a string of court and policy victories for wild horses across the West, they pointed out.
“Over the past several months, wild horse advocates stopped a plan by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Oregon State University to subject wild horses to cruel and dangerous fertility control experiments; the BLM rejected the advice of the agency's advisory council, which recommended euthanizing thousands of horses now living in captivity; a federal court ruled that the Appropriate Management Levels the BLM uses to justify cruel, costly roundups aren't valid; a coalition of 40 advocacy groups, including the Humane Society of the United States, called on the BLM to increase use of humane fertility control vaccine as a way to reduce and end roundups.”
With AMLs in dispute and dangerous sterilization procedures, euthanasia and slaughter off the table, fertility control is the best tool we have to preserve and manage wild horses on the range, center officials contend.
“As we've noted, increased use of fertility control will help horses and save taxpayers money. It's effective, safe and humane,” they stated.
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