Horses and burros currently roaming the Western landscape are not native to North America. These animals are descended from domesticated breeds brought to North America from Europe. In 1971, Congress ...

The Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Incentive Program, which has helped place over 15,000 animals into private homes and ...

Burros, a Spanish-derived word for donkeys and their wild cousins, must carry a saddle, pick, pan and shovel in homage to a bygone era and the mythical sprint by miners to a land claims office ...

Originally from Africa, donkeys (or burros, in Spanish) have been in North America for centuries ... at efforts (such as adoption programs for wild and domestic burros) aimed at giving these ...

A new bipartisan group in Congress has formed to address the management of wild horses and burros across the United States, a ...

In a landmark move for America’s wild horses and burros, U.S. Representatives Dina Titus, Juan Ciscomani, David Schweikert ...

2013. Using science to improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: a way forward. National Academies Press, Washington D.C., USA. Overpeck, J. T., and B. Udall. 2020. Climate change and the ...

In 2023, multiple burros from Nevada died at the same Utah facility. The majority succumbed to hyperlipidemia, a blood disease linked to stress-induced anorexia. American Wild Horse Conservation ...