There are now more American mustangs in captivity than roaming free.
More than 75,000 wild horses currently live in Bureau of Land Management holding facilities, with another 20,000 added each year. These overcrowded pens cost taxpayers billions over the horses’ lifetimes. Only a fraction are successfully adopted—and many of those eventually reappear at low-end auctions, slipping quietly into the slaughter pipeline once federal protections are lost after titling. Similar removals conducted by the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service, as well as roundups on tribal lands, often result in horses being sold for shockingly low prices, with inconsistent oversight and limited long-term safeguards.
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