President Donald Trump’s effort to eliminate longstanding protections preventing the slaughter of America’s wild horses hit a snag this week when the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations included ...

Allowing a free-ranging nonnative species to roam a massive, unfenced area that includes millions of acres of private land ...

Kentucky likes to call itself the Horse Capital of the World. Unless, that is, you mean wild horses, in which case some elected officials seem perfectly willing to let them be shipped off to slaughter ...

LANDER — Recent estimates suggest that 7,000-plus wild horses roam Wyoming’s vast rangeland. Galloping freely across a fenceless horizon, these horses are beloved as a symbol of the West. Still, ...

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- Six wild horses rounded up on federal land in the West and sold to a private owner have been slaughtered -- four months after Congress did away with protection for wild mustangs, a ...

Endorsed by leading animal welfare and industry groups, the Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act would expand the Dog and Cat Meat Prohibition Act to include equines, permanently protecting ...

WASHINGTON — Thirty-five more wild horses rounded up in the West were slaughtered Monday, but the Interior Department acted quickly to save the lives of 52 other mustangs by enlisting last-minute ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wild horses and burros could be bought or sold for slaughter under a provision in the $388 billion spending bill that President Bush signed into law on Wednesday. The new law lets ...

(Reuters) - One thousand wild horses are to be rounded up in California by the U.S. Forest Service and animal rights activists fear hundreds of them could be sold for slaughter. The Modoc National ...

Wild horses roam near a former surface mine in Breathitt County, Ky., on Friday, July 11, 2025. Ryan C. Hermens [email protected] Kentucky likes to call itself the Horse Capital of the World.