American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign
Keeping America's wild horses and burros wild
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The American Wild Horse Campaign is dedicated to stopping the federal government's systematic elimination of federally-protected wild horses and burros on America's western public rangelands.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Establishing the Model and Protecting Historic Herds
We have implemented the largest wild horse management program in the world for the historic wild horses of the Virginia Range in northern Nevada. This program utilizes a birth control vaccine to reduce population growth and decrease population numbers humanely over time.
We train local groups to implement this humane model for wild horse management to other Western herds, providing expertise and support and empowering them in their fight to save and humanely manage historic herds in their areas.
Securing Precedents for Protection
For over six years, the American Wild Horse Campaign has defended America’s wild horses in the courts of law. Working with our coalition partners, including the Cloud Foundation, photographers, local citizens and our top-notch legal team at Meyer Glitzenstein and Eubanks, we have amassed a strong record of successful litigation.
Preserving History at the Federal & State Levels
AWHC is committed to advancing federal and state legislation to improve the welfare of wild horses and burros on the range and in government holding facilities. Our efforts include working collaboratively with other advocacy groups, meeting with members of Congress on Capitol Hill and their district offices, and mobilizing and empowering our supporters to reach out to their elected officials on behalf of wild horses and burros
Education and Grassroots Advocacy
Only the power of the people can defeat the powerful special interests that want our wild horses eliminated from our public lands. That’s why we place a high priority on growing our grassroots army! In 2016 alone, we collected more than 400,000 petition signatures, grew our online community by nearly 100,000 and had 300,000 actions taken on behalf of wild horses and burros.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Animal Film Festival Award 2017
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
AWHC's comprehensive approach - through advocacy and grassroots mobilization, legislative and policy action, litigation, scientific collaboration, habitat stewardship, hands-on implementation of field solutions, and rescue of individual horses and burros when necessary and possible - is unique in the field of wild horse advocacy and has placed AWHC at the forefront of the fight to secure the future of the West's wild horses and burros.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
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Operations
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American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign
Board of directorsas of 06/08/2023
Ellie Phipps Price
Dustin Brown
Stephanie Zill
William Hake
Suzanne Roy
American Wild Horse Campaign
Ellie Phipps Price
Alicia Goetz
Sheri Salata
Patricia Miller
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