Willie Nelson has launched an open letter to his followers advocating for the safety of the USA’ inhabitants of free-roaming wild horses.
“Wild horses, like different wild animals, had been meant to be wild and free,” writes Nelson. In his letter, the nation icon urges his followers to contact their Congressional representatives to place stress on the Bureau of Land Administration to finish wild horse roundups, enhance the usage of secure and humane fertility management strategies in wild horse populations, and cross the SAFE Act to guard the species he calls “historic symbols of American freedom.”
Fifty years in the past, Congress voted unanimously to guard land inhabited by wild horse and burro populations with the passage of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act. As Nelson factors out in his letter, although, these protections have since been accompanied by laws that pressure the horses and burros to “share the protected land with personal livestock grazing, vitality initiatives and public recreation,” subsequently, the singer says, creating conflicting pursuits for “the Bureau of Land Administration, ranchers, vitality builders and wild horse advocates.”
“Let’s heal our divisions by coming collectively for this widespread function,” Nelson’s letter concludes.
Nelson is obsessed with animal welfare, and at the moment homes greater than 70 horses at his 700-acre Luck Ranch in Spicewood, Texas.
“My horses are most likely the luckiest horses on the planet,” he not too long ago informed the San Antonio broadcast station KSAT. The horses at Luck are hand-fed twice a day, and had been rescued by Nelson from a slaughterhouse.
In 2013, Nelson canceled a present deliberate at SeaWorld for the park’s “Bands, Brew and BBQ” collection, telling CNN, “I do not agree with the best way they deal with their animals.”
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