"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
Every year - along the California and Nevada border - ten thousand wild horses are rounded up - put into pens - and locked up. During the round-up and lock-up - about 10% of the horses die. The US Government's Bureau of Land Management is behind these roundups - and they argue that wild horse populations are exploding - straining resources - and starving other animals - and thus they should be controlled. There are roughly 33000 wild horses settling across ten western states - and the Department of Interior says the wild horse roundups are "necessary and justified to maintain the natural ecological balance... of the land." Critics of the roundups disagree though. One of those critics is Madeleine Pickens - she's an Animal rights Advocate - and Founder of "Saving America's Mustangs" and the "Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Sanctuary"