Urgent Action Items

Below are urgent action items where you can make your voice heard on behalf of wild horses and burros

Comments are due June 15th on the BLM's Public Comment Period on the Jackson Mountains HMAP in Nevada. Thanks to the hard work from Wild Horse Education you can see the important points on this comment period and quickly create and submit your comments. All the links you need are in the comments section below.

From WHE:

"Right now, your comments on the Jackson draft HMAP are critical. They don’t just influence this one plan; they help build the record and reinforce the message that “HMAP” must mean more than a heading on a gather plan.

In your comment, you can:

• Remind BLM: In 2012, BLM expressly deferred long-term management questions to a future HMAP. The agency cannot defer in 2012 to a future HMAP and then declare the same questions outside the scope of the HMAP in 2026.

• Demand transparent disclosure of how AML was set, including the data, modeling, and allocation choices for forage and water between horses, livestock, and wildlife.

• Insist that core HMAP functions—boundaries, range and water improvements for horses, monitoring, genetics, and foaling protections—be included in the HMAP itself, not deferred to undefined future decisions.

• Object to permanent sterilization (spaying) and large‑scale removals in an already low population without a scientifically defensible AML and and habitat‑based alternatives.

• Call for recognition of the distinct sub‑units in Jackson and a concrete plan to maintain long‑term genetic viability, not manage the herd down to numbers that cannot sustain themselves.

Jackson Mountains Wild Horse Herd Management Area Plan Preliminary Environmental Assessment is available for a 30-day public comment period, ending June 15, 2026. Crafting your own comment and submitting it through the “Participate Now” button on the BLM website or emailing to BLM_NV_WDO_WHB@blm.gov Attn: Jackson Mountains HMAP PEA are the most impactful ways of commenting.  Or you can send via mail to: Jackson Mountains HMAP PEA, Black Rock Field Office, 5100 East Winnemucca Blvd., Winnemucca, NV 89445

If you cannot craft your own comments you can click here (link in the comments below) to sign onto a public letter we will send to BLM. You can also copy and paste the text of that letter into your own email as a start to crafting your own comments."

Your comment does not need to be long and drawn out, but it does need to be factual, mature, and well written. No threats, all CAPS, or a bunch of exclamation points. As advocates we want to be seen as well-informed and educated, not 'crazy'. Wild horses need our voices - please take a few minutes between now and June 15th to write and submit your comment!

LINKS:

Article from Wild Horse Education

Link to BLM page on this public comment period

On June 9th in Australia, helicopters once again took to the air and starting using rifles to shoot at the wild Brumbies. Stallions, mares, and foals will be shot at indiscriminately until June 30th. They will suffer as these are not direct kill shots, but rather random shooting meant to inflict pain, suffering, and in most cases a long death.

The claim is of course that the Brumbies are 'overpopulated', are trampling and eating native plants, pushing out native wildlife, but we all know it's for livestock.

So what can we do? Make our voices heard and help bring awareness to this atrocity. I know there is so much going on in the world and it's hard to think that we can make a difference, but we can if enough of us take the time and effort needed.

Here are some details below for contacts provided by facebook.com/Australianbrumby to raise your concerns. It is best to use polite but strong language to let them know how you feel about this issue (i.e. no death threats, swearing, or all caps).

RSPCA Australia

https://www.rspca.org.au/report-animal-cruelty/

Chris Minns- Premier NSW: kogarah@parliament.nsw.gov.au

https://www.nsw.gov.au/nsw.../premier-of-nsw/contact-premier

Minister Sharpe is currently suspended from parliament and is not answerable, despite this being her portfolio! and now will only accept communication screened through NSW Parliament.

The Governor General of Australia

https://www.gg.gov.au/office-official.../email-contacts

The Prime Minister of Australia

pmc@pmc.gov.au or the online form

https://www.pm.gov.au/contact#no-back

There is a script you can use in one of the graphics below. You can also contact tourism offices in Australia at https://www.tourism.australia.com/en/contact-us.html and let them you will not visit the country until this plan of shooting the Brumbies stops.

Will all of this take some time and research? Yes. Is it worth your time? I hope the answer is yes. We might not be able to stop the current culling for June, but as you can see in one of the graphics below, they plan to do it again in November. Let's help to stop that one.