Right now the majority of captive wild horses are at risk of heat stroke and death because there is no shade during the hot summer months at Palomino Valley Center (Reno) and other BLM holding facilities in the U.S.A.
On June 9th, Senator Mark Manendo and Anne Novak, Executive Director of Protect Mustangs, officially requested shade for the wild horses and burros at Palomino Valley Center near Reno and elsewhere to ensure the welfare of these treasured equids. Their request for shade was refused and the mitigation offered was unsuccessful because shade is needed.
Campaigns such as #Shade4Mustangs, “Gimme Shelter”, Palomino Relief Project, and #GiveUsShelter have launched because the American people are up in arms.
We ask that you intervene to bring emergency shade and care to prevent the deaths of our American icons of freedom before it is too late.
Trapped in the corrals the 1,800 wild horses and burros at Palomino Valley are enduring a horrible heat wave now and their condition looks worse each day.
We thank you for your compassion for our national treasures — native wild horses and burros who need your help. They need your urgent attention to survive the summer — captive in the federally funded corrals. They need #Shade4Mustangs and burros.
By Protect Mustangs
Berkeley, California