Rallies in support of wild horses

Wild horse advocates will rally in four cities today as part of their campaign for better management of the animals. Supporters are gathering in Washington DC, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and London this Thursday. Advocates have been growing increasingly vocal over the Bureau of Land Management's strategies for controlling herd numbers, which now see more wild horses held in captivity than on the western rangelands. They also oppose a plan by US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to move horses to new herd areas further east. The rallies, called March for Mustangs, comes to Washington just as Salazar attempts to persuade Congress to provide at least $US42 million to fund moving the first group of 26,600 western wild horses to the Midwest and East...more