A proposal to kill thousands of mustangs roaming the western United States has angered animal welfare groups, which say horses are paying the price for years of bureaucratic mismanagement.
Around 33,000 wild horses are spread across 10 western states, while the US Bureau of Land Management, which floated its proposal in June, has said that the total needs to be reduced by around 6,000 horses. That is in addition to an estimated 33,000 excess horses in government-funded holding facilities.
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