An Alberta artist, Norene Procter, pleads with Premier Danielle Smith to reverse course and preserve Alberta's wild horses: "I'd probably get on my knees and beg them to stop hurting our horses."
Norene has been an artist for almost four decades, and her favorite subject to paint has always been the horse. The plan to cull the remaining 1,500 of Alberta's wild horses could result in extinction, advocates urge, pointing out that there is no real reason for the cull.
"Leave them alone, let them run free; if the horse doesn't represent freedom, what does?" she asks, pointing out that the government used the wild horses in an award-winning tourism film in 2023.
"If you're using our animals, treat them with respect! If the horses are sterilized, that works for three to five years and is utterly horrifying to these animals—it affects their groups terribly and that absolutely can lead to extinction," Norene adds.
ZooCheck Canada says that wild horses are being "scapegoated for rangeland damage caused by human activities." They call on Albertan's to contact their elected representatives to stop the cull.
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