American Wild Horse Conservation

The American Wild Horse Conservation (AWHC) is the nations leading wild horse advocacy organization. We are dedicated to defending Americas wild horses and burros by protecting their freedom, preserving their habitat, promoting humane standards of treatment, and securing their future on our western public lands for generations to come as part of our national heritage. AWHC creates and implements humane solutions to keep wild horses both wild and safe, while increasing the publics awareness of, and appreciation for, Americas wild herds, as part of the ecological and cultural landscape of the American West. AWHC programs address threats that endanger wild horse and burro populations on our public lands. Such threats are presented by government agencies and policies that seek to round up these American heritage animals, remove them from their homes on the range, warehouse and/or sell them for slaughter and, in some cases, eradicate them entirely from our public lands. Our primary fo...