An Urgent Call from Zoocheck Canada to act on behalf of Alberta, Canada’s wild horses
Posted January 8th, 2016 on Niagara At Large
It is expected that Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips will make a decision about whether to allow the capture of more of Alberta’s wild horses as early as next week.
Photo by Duane Starr posted with this call for urgent action on Zoocheck Canada website
Please take a few minutes to call or email her office and urge her NOT to approve any permits to remove free roaming wild horses from the Alberta landscape in 2016.
Please reference the following points: * there is NO evidence that free roaming wild horses are damaging the environment; * horses evolved in North America and co-evolved with the habitats they now live in; * the reintroduction of horses into Alberta more than 200 years ago should be viewed as a reintroduction of a native species and thus wild horses should be given native wildlife status; * the continued removal of wild horses threaten their survival as numbers are already low.
Please keep your calls and correspondence polite and respectful. We do not know what the Minister is thinking about this issue. We want her to understand: 1. there is no evidence or science supporting wild horse removals; 2. that wild horses should be viewed as part of the natural Alberta landscape; 3. that wild horses serve a useful, natural ecological role; 4. that wild horses can be economically beneficial through tourism; 5. that they are an iconic symbol of the west.
Contact Minister Shannon Phillips TODAY! Phone: 780.427.2391 Email: aep.minister.m@gov.ab.ca
Click on Donate to the Wild Horses Campaign or the following to donate to Zoocheck’s Wild Horses campaign – https://www.zoocheck.com/donate/ .
Zoocheck is a Canadian-based international wildlife protection charity (#13150 2072 RR0001) established in 1984 to promote and protect the interests and well-being of wild animals. Zoocheck works with a broad range of collaborating partners around the world.
Zoocheck endeavors to promote animal protection in specific situations and strive to bring about a new respect for all living things and the world in which they live.
For more information on Zoocheck Canada, visit its website at www.zoocheck.com .
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If these Horses are causing damage to the environment, I can’t imagine how bad it was when there where Millions of Buffalo on those plains!
At one time there were million’s of wild buffalo roaming those same lands that where slaughtered off by the white man, if they were still there in large numbers would this same government be wanting to kill them as well?
Those that are pushing for this are the ones that can make a profit – Horse meat for Europe or/an cattle/sheep/grain farmers or/an developer! They are lobbing the government for their own self interest!
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I used the email provided. Below is the auto response I received:
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