AWHC's Fight Against the AIP

Join us for the first webinar of the year as Amelia Perrin of the American Wild Horse Campaign discusses the BLM's Adoption Incentive Program (AIP) that has been funneling wild horses and burros into the slaughter pipeline and what is being done to put a stop to it.

The webinar will be next Wednesday, March 16th, at 8pm ET/5pm PT. Sign up here: [LINK}

The AIP—which pays adopters to take up to four wild, unhandled horses or burros at $1,000 per animal—was exposed by an AWHC investigation as a pipeline to slaughter. The investigation prompted an explosive 2021 New York Times report documenting that "truckloads" of wild horses and burros were being sent to slaughter auctions after adopters pocketed the incentive payments totaling $1,000 per animal adopted.

In the last 15 months, AWHC has identified nearly 600 wild horses and burros in kill pens and has confirmed that the vast majority of these equines were adopted through the AIP. The organization’s investigation has also identified numerous groups of related individuals who are adopting the maximum of four horses or burros per person and collecting thousands more in tax-funded cash incentives, then selling the animals in kill pens as soon as the incentive payments clear their bank accounts.

This is a webinar that you won't want to miss!