MAXWELL, Neb. (CBS4) — In 2021, it cost $78 million in federal taxpayer money to care for nearly 60,000 wild horses and burros that were rounded up out of the wild and moved into holding facilities ...

Across the Western U.S., wild horses that once roamed freely are ending up penned in corrals at facilities self-described as kill pens. The owners of these businesses typically buy the horses at ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Federal officials plan to round up hundreds of wild horses roaming California’s Eastern Sierra, saying they pose ...

Sept 16 (Reuters) - It’s hard not to be moved by the beauty of wild horses galloping across a western plain, hooves pounding and manes flying. Little wonder such images are featured in ads selling ...

This is the last of three stories about free-roaming horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. Click here to read the first and second parts. ALPINE, Ariz. (CN) — The dark brown foal remained ...

Alpine, a dark brown stallion, leader of a 12-horse band in the Apache-Sitgraves National Forest, stands guard before his foal. (Joe Duhownik/Courthouse News) This is the second of three stories about ...

Most of the U.S.'s estimated 75,000 wild horses live on public lands. — -- A wild mustang charging across an open plain is a symbol of the untamed majesty of nature. But the predators chasing ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado does not have a wild horse problem as a recent Denver Post headline states. The real issue lies with the meat industry’s grip on our public lands.

There are more than 75,000 wild horses roaming public land in the west. "Wild horses" are the descendants of domesticated horses, the first, brought here by Spanish explorers 500 years ago. By 1971, ...

Wild horses running through the mist. Source: Pixabay/Pexels Horses are magnificent, sentient, emotional, and highly social, family-oriented beings. They, like countless other species, struggle to ...

Known as Przewalski’s horses, the animals have been missing from Kazakhstan’s landscape for 200 years. They're being reintroduced, where they'll play a crucial role in the ecosystem. The world's last ...