Holding; Rock Springs — Wild Horse Education

The Jail at Rock Springs, Wyoming: by Cathy Ceci Traveling around the Western states, we’ve had some great opportunities to check on some of the BLM wild horse holding facilities. Some real life, true story, visits. Rock Springs Corrals in Wyoming, where they can handle up to 800 wild horses and burros, primarily from Wyoming’s …

The high, cruel costs of shipping live cargo

Twenty-thousand chicks were euthanized in Belgium on Sunday after suffocating in an overheated shipping container stuck on the tarmac at Brussels Airport. Firefighters gassed the chicks after a flight that was due to take the container to the Democratic Republic of Congo was canceled on Saturday, the BBC reports. “We sent a vet to the… via …

#GiveBIG for Snow Leopards Today! — The Jaguar

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) are incredible animals: able to survive in some of the harshest environments on Earth. The ruggedness of their habitat, combined with their elusive nature, has earned them the nickname “the ghost of the mountains.” While there are many organizations doing great work to protect snow leopards, such as the Snow Leopard […] …