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Out here in the great American West, there is still a lot of wide open spaces. But as Aristotle once said, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” and so did the horses and burros that moved right in to those wide open spaces.
Horses and burros were brought to the West by Spanish Conquistadors, from which they made their escape into the void, where they became wild and free.
Over the course of time, the animals that preyed on wild horses and domestic livestock were, for the most, wiped out, leaving the horses to roam freer than ever before.
Today an estimated 83,000 wild horses and burros roam free in what’s left of wide open spaces of the American West. But they are not really free. In 1971 Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and now the wild and free are wards of the state.
The Bureau of Land Management is required by this law to manage wild horse and burro populations so as to maintain a healthy balance with the environment. It is in the management of these populations of wild horses and burros that we find our questio
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Hello Michael,
I noticed that your article references an outdated stat. You mentioned that there are “83,000 wild horses and burros” in the United States. Based on our most recent data, these figures have been updated, and According to the latest data, There Are 73,520 Wild Horses and Burros in USA (58,952 wild horses and 14,568 burros).
As one of the leading organizations in advocacy, It’s the World Animal Foundation’s utmost duty to ensure such statistics are current, not just on our platform but also on other relevant platforms.
Having recently revised our article with the newest statistics, I wanted to share this so you might consider a similar update.
For your reference and to verify the new statistics, please visit our page: https://worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/how-many-horses-are-there/.
To provide your audience with direct access to the latest data, we’d be grateful if you could link to our article when making the update.
Thank you for your attention to this.
Best Regards.
Kane Rosario,
Asst. Outreach Manager
World Animal Foundation