America's Wild Horse
Although wild horse populations can be found everywhere in the western United States today, these wild horses are not native species in the United States, they were brought to the western Countryside by the early pioneers of the United States, such as miners, prospectors and others. Although these areas are not very rich in food, they have no competitors for wild horses, and the area is wide, which is obviously a good place to breed, so they began to breed wildly.
There are now more than 80,000 wild horses in the United States, which are indeed a threat to native species, so they need to be strictly managed. The current practice in the United States is to regularly round up wild horses and transfer them to special wild horse containment facilities, and some good quality horses will be auctioned off.
It's okay to say, but the actual operation has been widely criticized, especially after the round-up in Colorado's sand washing basin began on September 1, 2021. Wildlife advocates feel that using helicopters to round up wild horses can cause accidental injuries because horses running at high speeds can be injured after being stopped by anesthesia.
There are also many people who do not understand why they do this to wild horses, they think that these are public lands anyway, why can't they be the habitat of wild horses? And doing so would be a waste of taxpayer money.
We can understand that it is to prevent the adverse impact of wild horses on the environment and ecosystem, but the minds of the people in the United States cannot be turned, because they have been practicing elite education, the elite has always been the elite, but the fools will always be fools, so we can always hear some Americans express incomprehensible ideas, and Trump seized this point to take office normally.
This is a tough situation for the Mustang, and it is also a dilemma for the department that controls the ecology, a dilemma for all participants. In order to make the public understand, the Land Management Bureau chose to be transparent to the public and say anything, and the result was that such a one-size-fits-all approach sparked controversy because an unknown horrible highly contagious disease spread in mustang shelters.
As many as 85 wild horses died en masse due to infection with an unknown highly contagious disease
Hall, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, said: "In less than a week from April 23 to April 29, 85 wild horses died from an unknown highly contagious disease in a federally administered storage corral in Colorado.
The facility housed 2,500 animals, mostly from a round-up last fall near Rio Blanco County, Utah, all of which were later transferred to Kanyan City. It is not known whether it was the latent diseases at the time or the captivity that caused them, which is one of the reasons for the controversy.
The Bureau of Land Management determined that the symptoms of the sick mustang were mainly respiratory problems and rapid congestion of the chest, so the tissue laboratory rushed to conduct autopsies and other investigations on the sick and dead mustangs, and is still analyzing blood and tissue samples.
Controversy reignited again
People and animal protectors suspect that the Land Administration has caused so many wild horses to be kept in high-density enclosures in shelters, and if the disease can also infect humans, the Land Administration's round-up of wild horses is even more "sinful".
Roy, executive director of the American Mustang Movement, believes that the authorities' round-up operation itself is very inhumane, and the living conditions provided for the wild horses after they are caught are also unreasonable, and such large-scale round-ups directly cause the outbreak of diseases and the main cause of animal deaths. If you continue to practice such an operation, you will definitely see more suffering and death!
The group didn't just ask questions, they also suggested changes: by implementing birth control to stabilize the population to avoid the undesirable consequences of rounding up horses.
postscript
Controlling invasive species has always been a difficult subject, especially for mammals. The opinions of the authorities and the people have their own reasons, but they cannot be dragged out because of different opinions, and they always have to do things. But if something is done, there may be new opinions, and if you don't do it, you will have opinions.
It's hard to think about.