America’s Wild Horses Are Under Threat | NBC Left Field
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- A federal law protects tens of thousands of wild horses across millions of acres in America’s West. But with their numbers now skyrocketing, the Trump administration wants to make selling them for slaughter legal again, and the future of these icons of America’s West is hanging in the balance.
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People forget that half the country was built on the backs of horses
These are feral horses, brought from Europe, they are kinda an invasive species
Khoa Nguyen Le Anh And your going to tell me all the cattle and sheep aren’t invasive? They, along with people aren’t native either.
We are man. We dispose of stuff that ain't useful to our goals sadly.
People forget "their land" it is not THEIR at all
@Baja Dan so its native's land.
No other farmers use "public land!" Buy your own land and grow your herds! Farmers have no right to take horses lands!
You're on it, thank you.
Horses have the right to be delicious food for people.
Really? You are aware of the origins of roping and branding wild steers and horses? Cattle driving, Cowboys and how the West was won? Public land has been a bone of contention for 200 years not to mention the First Nation claims to their own native lands.
Hunting them would fix all of this
common land is the backbone of ranching, without common land only corporations could afford to compete.
Selling them for Slaughter that's disgusting..... I'm not surprised Americans want this
320 million+ humans and back in the day USA had millions of buffalo but 95000 horses in the whole country is to much?
Oh come on
Horses were born here, so they are citizens, right.
deport illegals immigrants not Republican horses
Hahaha.
Horses aren’t native to america
Spartan I mean, they are but ok.
The last remaining breeds you see today are not native, but horses originated in North America and crossed the landbridge to Eurasia. The last Native American breed crossed over around 7600 BC. This is actually their ancestral homeland.
Michael perez modern horses aren’t native to America anymore then an East Asian is native to Ethiopia just because our species evolved there
That is NOT AN OPTION!! Horses have a right to live. The sheep should live on private farms that are owned by the farmers! Don't suffer the horses to provide for the farmers!
Making it legal to slaughter horses would help every horse in America. Their numbers in the wild are about double what they should be. Plus when farmers hit tough times, they let their horses starve because there is almost no market for horses.
It clearly is an option, its just an option you don't like. There is a distinction.
Much better to just shut down the sheep farms
@@rickysnow400 wow you are stupid how would slaughtering a horse help him?
@@rickysnow400 no reintroduce the the gray wolf were horse populations are
Stop the slaughter of horses and the brutality BLM ppl do to them !!
The horses are precious. 💞🐎🏇
And Ranchers are still wanting the horses gone even though they don’t graze or do as much damage as say cattle do.... I’d love to see how much damage other than in Australia horses have done to the environment in the United States.. like a before and after the fact of horse populations.
*How about we human's stop having kids?*
paola23yr agreed
How about you stop being a Nihilist?
How about you go first, Paola? That's one human less, and you'll be part of the solution...
These horses were here long before these farmers and sheep! Go buy your own land and graze YOUR ANIMALS on YOUR OWN LAND! The farmers in others parts of the US don’t bully their way onto BLM LANDS. How dare your come onto lands where these horses have been centuries and say, “There’s too many anything! I don’t come onto your property and say, “Well, there’s too many people on this property so we are going to slater 50% of them so we can have their portion!” Do you see how crazy this mind set has become?!!!
My friend Ore The Shepherd Congratulations on the dumbest comment ever. These horses aren’t native to the land and are descendants of domesticated horses aka not on that land longer than people.
@@crowjones78 No Mike... here comes the dumbest: It's all TRUMP's FAULT!!!
This is why I want to train wild horses and give them homes and take care of them
Good idea
Why you can't just leave a wild animal wild?! What is your problem? Many country around the world have wild horses. And most of them are smaller than USA, like mine... For once in your history dont take things you dont need from a land you destroyied
Ah let people do what they want
@Kevin Tewey it's not up to us choosing how many we can keep, 'cause they are not ours, i understand there can be "fights" between wild life and humans (in my country boars are a huge problems, you cant even imagine how destroying they can be) but the horses in the video are doing nothing... and boy I know what i need to know or i wouldn't be talking
@@desertgirl3999 and horses ancestors first evolved in America anyway
Colorado has already disseminated their wild horse areas to a token few areas such as what was highlighted in this story. Only 2.7% of all American ranchers have Federal land permits and even smaller fraction of that number on wild horse dedicated areas. The ranchers in this story struggling to get by are not the typical ranchers on Horse areas. Eg. Three horse areas in Oregon (1.7 million acres) have one permittee that has 97% of the allocation of forage to 3 % for the horses. Same in WY three horse areas with 1.4 million acres and the so called rancher who with their billions of dollars got a consent decree from the local court (judge is a ranchers wife) to completely have the horses in their area Zeroed out within 10 years or by 2024. Remember Wild Horses were given this land by law and for their "principal use". The story is more than what they say. The stories facts have been shown to be inconsistent and exaggerated. The livestock minded, (all animals are for $$) are salivating at the Stewarts amendment to release our wild horses for sale emass. They are rounding them up in record numbers even when they say they have to many in holding with the lie of overpopulation. This Excess song was written and directed by the billion dollar meat industry and they are afraid of the truth.
@Girl Goin I believe the best place to start would be to somehow get the media to hit the world... the whole world with the truth. The truth in black and white Signed by those stating the opposite of reality. The truth right next to and alongside the lies that are fed to the masses...
It would be possible to enlist the masses in this fight, if only we had the media on board in full force!! Media, after all, is more powerful than the Government!
If the land can't handle the horses they'd be starving, and clearly that's not the case
So when people mess with our wildlife and they stop seeing them they start crying that their getting extinct, it's a simple fix, just leave them alone, it's not hard
but there is a lot of them but i don't want them to be killed
This ain’t as simple as restoring a native population. These animals were introduced with colonization and they have no predators in their habitats anymore.
@@jackcoolidge8123 horses are native animals to North America as they evolved here, plus cougars and packs of wolves have been found to prey on them on high numbers, especially cougars. The solution is to stop killing the predators and let nature balance itself out.
@@YooTooLoB a cougar or wolves aren't going to waste the energy to catch a horse every day. That's beside the fact that there aren't enough to keep the horse population down. If we leave them alone they grow an grow until the grass NEVER grows back an they suffer an starve to death
@@wildnevadakid9216 cougars never hunt any type of animal a day, but they have been proven to keeping horse populations down when they cooccur in the same areas. Added with pressure from wolves you will find that the number of horses will stabilize itself.
Who’s here for a writing prompt 😅
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Our American wildhorses and burros need to stay free and wild like they have always been!!!
Jojo Tamayo Ayo expect not in America
Horses aren’t american
Agree. Too much building and expansion in this country
@@daddygravely4673 still nice to see them running around free
Let's not forget.... when people can't afford to care for their horses they turn them loose on the range.
Start releasing lions or tigers out there lmao
I know I’m three years late 🤣
@Baldhina Asnake you are actually right! Balance haha
@Baldhina Asnake not a good idea, you'd end up with just another invasive species reeking havoc on the North American ecosystem
We wouldn't have this problem if gray wolves weren't hunted
Issue comes down to cattle ranchers killing wolves and wild
Cats!
public land should not be used by farmers, this is for the protected horses.
I do not understand why they would want to rid themselves of these animals while people pay a ton for thoroughbreds. The people buying horses should take the foals and also ones that can be broken. I think all horses can be broken. American Indians did this all the time. Furthermore even a thoroughbred needs to be broken to ride. Horses are a very smart animal and ultimately loves the socialization in the end of being broken and ridden. They love human interaction. When I was a boy a freaking deer followed deer followed me home for some reason and just would not go away. I went inside the house and when I came out a few hours later the freaking deer was standing at the front door on the lawn where I left him. This was confusing. I literally had to yell "go away!!!" So if a deer wanted to be friends for some bizarre reason I'm quite sure we could circulate the beautiful horses into the public quite easily and offer protection of a beautiful animal. Eventually I learned (when my father returned that the deer was young and likely lost his mom. So he imprinted on me immediately when he saw I was no threat and was nice to him. Once I patted his head that was it. Game on.
She answered exactly how I would lol. Old school. I like her. "Oh it does. But whats a nip in the butt?"
Respect the horses. Leave them alone!!!!
We are considering turning some excellent bloodline quarter horses loose with a few herds to help "improve" the existing herds. What's your thoughts!
@Kevin Tewey Kevin ol boy, I fear you are living in a fantasy world.
Go for it
Stop this obscene government!!! Sickening!
Yes Honey! It's all Trump's fault!!
The human race is getting exactly what it deserves. #TeamThanos
The animals are destroying the land, it’s not the people’s fault that the animals cannot be controlled. It has nothing to do with us not wanting to get along
For the people who say horse's arent native they literally evolved in North America but became extinct when humans arrived.
you would be prosecuted for treating livestock like this
The way of life is not to murder horses
Horses helped people get around for 1000s of years.. and this people treat them like this??? Wtf
horses are just cows with faster running legs. so why are horses raised to a higher regard than cows.both living , grazing , animals. On the other hand horse hippies will say horses are smarter than cows. but pigs are one of the most slaughtered animal commercially and surpasses the intelligence of a horse , cow,and dog. with the the intellect of a 3 year old human this animal has hardly anyone defending them.either you care about all intellectual animals or your a wishy washy animal lover who only cares for animals that don't taste good . this is a petty argument to be made.
I love pigs. They're such majestic intelligent creatures with their loving families. I expect all horse lovers here to also absolutely LOVE pigs because of their beauty and intelligence... I look forward to you all here storming the pig farms and abattoirs to save these magnificent creatures...
Fake News!!!! Very Fake News!! Faker than Donald Trump's hair.
Ahem...it's all DT's fault, remember that!
i dont want horse to die in the past they did so much :(
why can't they move some of the horses to another area like the grand canyon or somewhere there is a big plot of land and people who love horses, if they start to slater horses it will only anger more people.
I am not understanding why these ranchers can't round up stray horses and sell them for human consumption? the French, Italians, Canadians and many more cultures eat horses, I've never tried it, but I would. I grew up during the Quarter horse boom of the 70s and 80s; later on I went to Italy and France with the US Army, they eat horses without blinking an eye. I personally don't see anything wrong with it; it's about perception. Prior to horses and mules being utilized as "beast of burdens" cattle were used in the US and else where; there is absolutely nothing wrong with eating horses.
Like cats horses are one of the most allergenic plus dosed with chemicals. Only a few southern tribes considered them. rock art. of hunting are never of horse. the horse made man their companion and are millions of years more evolved than we are.
easy solution: sell them out of the US or give me all of them for free. lol.
Can you afford that?
@@paulaz4587 i would like to get this deal of course
No
introducing more natural predators that once thrived there sounds like a good solution to me.
Lucas, do you want to witness how an innocent foal is ripped away from his desperate mum and eaten alive by a merciless wolf? How awful!!
jack morgan . You’re humanizing animals. “Merciless wolf”. That wolf needs to eat to survive. A wolf with “merci” would starve to death.
Not only that but predators are needed to keep a good balance. Too little predators and you get overpopulation, overgrazing, more sickness, etc.
A very good video on how predators are needed to bring balance to an ecosytem ua-cam.com/video/ysa5OBhXz-Q/v-deo.html
Of the few family ranchers left that share fed. land leases on a horse herd area called HMA could be contracted to watch over the herds. Much cheaper than rounding them up and stressing them out. (also the stress taking them does on the public). They could take data on the horses self regulation according to habitat conditions of each year. Even help with dna collection, how the horse interacts with other species etc.
So what happened with the bill in 2018?
Are this,civilised society.Is this???.
we need more natural predators.
Humans have done quite enough damage, thank you.
What if they release packs of wolves where the wild horses are so they control the population naturally? Is that possible? It's just an idea
Killing a horse should be illegal
Poor hoses those two woman at minute 1:45 have the evil on their eyes
Export them to other parts of the world.i mean countries with enough space and climate conditions.
Uhuu aren't horses invasive and brought to the us by the Spanish? Shouldn't invasive species not be protect?
Yes, but the the mustang is a symbol to the wild west to people and folks like horses. Naturally humans will fret about it.
Why not capture stallions and geld them? In the long run it will save thousands of dollars, is a life long fix and it will help thin the herds.
Because that's animal cruelty!!!
Waste of money
If you think about it. How can any person hurt something so beautiful? What is wrong with in this world ?
That's what I think when I see wild hogs and crocodiles... How can anyone hurt those majestic creatures?
Probably with 30-06
It's 2022 what became was his horses and law?
Author Morgan wouldn't stand for this
Ok imagine that you were one of the horses and farmers wanted to take down your home how would you feel same with horses they have the rights to roam around same with other animals
I mean we did it with the native population. I fear for the next species we discover.
Would love to work on pieces like this
give them to other countries
Yes, ship them to Australia! They have lots of space there and the people will be happy to have them! They can add them to their Brumby wild horses. They need the company...
Are there really any wild horses left today? Looks like everyone has turned a blind eye to protecting any of our wild resources.
Wolves can controling their number
@Storm Mist yes they can wolves in Canada hunt wild horses ua-cam.com/video/qwvXgUaCAhs/v-deo.html
@Baldhina Asnake yes they can there pack animals if they can hunt elk , bison, moose, then horses wouldn't be a problem for them.
@Baldhina Asnake also it's can't not ca't
Wolves have hundred horses for hundreds of thousands of years in Eurasia and North America.
Humanity has the same problem.
The horses aren't native to the land and struggled to survive here anyway, but the BLM has always been the horses worst enemy. They need to leave things alone and let nature take care of the horse population. The last thing they need is more money.
Horses are Native, they have been in America 100's, 1000's even millions of years. Elk only 14,000, Bison only 130,000 (both evolved in Northern China Russia) and Man must of followed them across the land bridge also only 14,000 years ago. I do agree leave them alone and let nature take care of them as long as their land resources given them by us by law are not hoarded by the other interests on their land.
There is no such thing as a North American "wild horse". The horse went extinct in the Americas around 10,000 years ago. Their descendants, which had crossed the Bering land bridge, spread out over Asia, were captured and domesticated, and selectively bred for desired traits. These altered breeds were then introduced by the Europeans, after native wildlife and plants had adapted to their absence, and became an invasive species wreaking havoc on the native habitats. These feral mongrels no more resemble the original North American wild horse than dogs resemble wolves. I'm fairly certain no would want to see packs of feral dogs roaming the countryside so why are these pests any different?
Are you stupid horses have no problem surviving there
@Tina Moore Yeah, that's ok Tina. I thought I saw a spelling mistake with 'Adam and Steve'...
the real mustang 🐎💨 of America 🇺🇸
Greedy ranchers
That is too brutal and you are will fully killing them and birth control and killing for animals food.shame shame.
Jeez...Inner city people might pay just to have a chance to shoot a dart at the horses. Maybe the ladies could make some extra dollars and protect the horses at the same time by calling it an adventure vacation.
They’re not invasive species if they had been there before, horses roamed America just a couple thousand years ago, which is a tick of the clock in geological time, they’re just reintroduced species, but if they want to control their numbers just reintroduce lions, they used to roam here to🤷🏽♂️
Put project irrigation in the middle of the land and water the grass
guys can I ask question how the wild horse sleeps in the wild ❓🤔 did he sleep when he stands on his 4 feet or he set down and sleep like a lot of animals ! I'm just confused 😁
Are you allowed to buy a tag (similar to a hunting tag) and find a horse and break it into a work animal?
Why don’t they sale them
Why are you trying to stop the population of wild horses? And when the times come when there are fewer horses you will again trying to raise the number. Im getting confused.
Keep all of them mustangs!!!!!!
please capture train and sell them to other countries
Get horses and send them to different places there are people who want horses and would look after him I was crying and if something doesn't happen they will be killed
Horse leather is really stretchy for leather
Eurasia horses are non native to the America's meaning they are an invasive species without any predators
How about we leave them alone. There's so much unoccupied land in the United States. But ranchers say that they would like to see fewer of them give me a break
There is not unoccupied land in the US and its all extremely expensive. The horse populations are too high for their own good. They down have predators and the population will grow until they destroy all the vegetation.
@@boneycheeeze8234 There aren't big enough ranges anymore. These horses can't travel far enough to find good forage and water. We have fences, highways, bridges, and railroads that impede them. We can't just let them loose in a new area and let them figure it out because there is no area big enough (that also has natural predators to wild horses) for them to thrive.
@@boneycheeeze8234 what predators are they introducing to manage the populations? If there are no predators the populations just continue to expand until there is no food left or a disease wipes through them. (by the way, people are way overpopulated which is why we have a problem like Covid. There are so many of us and we have so much connection with other people that the virus is able to spread, if there were fewer of us spread out the virus would be isolated)
@@boneycheeeze8234 I'm sure the people who live in the surrounding area are gonna love gray wolves, grizzlies, and cougars trying to eat their kids and pets.
Go vegan! Ask for lentil farmers, not livestock farmers. Will free up land world-wide for wild animals. Huge amounts of land! If I've done it at age 52, so can you! So many resources online to help you transition. No problem. You have a good chance to live longer, too!
Very nice, Sky!
Great video
Are they supplementing the beef market with horse meat? 🤔
they eat horses in many countries so it not like its not done anywhere
Pitiful
Wild life is controlled by a balance of both herbivores and carnivores .... humans need to introduce the balance of both to control the wild horse population. Although sterilization of horses is a good idea to control population without introducing compatible carnivores (wolves, bears and cougars) to help control the species.
horses for rideing only not for food
these are not wild horses, these are feral horses.
Our Farmers feed us, keep that in mind.
They also destroying the planet and everything on it
Meanwhile Theus can give billions of aid to other countries !!
public land ranching isn't that old.
Shamefully decesion
Why not sell some of them to South East Asia racing clubs
Maybe Chinese wet markets?
Wild Mustang horses.⛹🏾♂️🐴🇺🇸💎🥐
Of course a Narcissist like Donald Trump would have no feeling for an animal or person.
What about when the old horses die there will be a decrease of wild horse because mares wouldn't be able to breed
Sophie Xo Thats the whole point of it.
Chris Webster what I’m saying is when old horses die and the people carry on not making mares breed then there won’t be any wild horses left
Sophie Xo I don’t think they’re targeting all of them. To get rid of them all like that they’d have to sterilize every mare out there every single year until the very last one is too old to breed, which I doubt they could ever do even if they wanted to. The goal is to simply decrease their numbers, since they are way overpopulated now, and that’s all this will do.
There are not any wild horses left anyway. These are a destructive, feral pest and need to be eradicated.
To everyone watching this saying the horses are native to the lands. Wrong. They are not native. They were brought over 500 years ago by the Spanish and bred with the ranchers horses that were turned out. The horses ARE over populated. I’ve seen it myself. Let me tell you, dying of starvation is much worse than them being taken in by the BLM. You really want to do something? Stop breeding pure bred horses and go adopt a mustang. They can do everything the show ponies can do and sometimes even better!!
Laura, adopting these horses is also not a solution. To keep horses you need to know so much about horses and the way they think, you need to be an expert. Most of us are not like that so we can't keep these animals. The horse experts amongst the population are only a tiny minority...
I will always post amazing videos from the Amazon Region
I'll put the link for you
No effective predator?
Save the wild Brumbies dDont let the be slaughtered
Why not make them legal to hunt? Lowers the population, and stimulates the economy.
Humans are not the Stewart’s of the land what is she talking about humans are why this problem exists
No, lack of predators. If we humans would be gone there would still be too many without predators. They would breed themselves out of space.
More cars and gas, licenses, insurance, tolls.
These beautiful creatures where created to share the earth with us. They procreate. Cars don't and they fertilize the ground naturally. What do cars do? Cars take gas horses grass. What's gas or grass do to your body?