The Navajo Horse Rescue and Recovery Mission (NHRRM) is an effort to help rescue and re-home wild horses, burros and orphan foals that are at risk of slaughter or that have been victimized by the Navajo roundups. The Wild for Life Foundation founded the Navajo Horse Rescue and Recovery Mission to address and provide for the urgent needs of horses and burros found in life threatening situations due to the Navajo Nation roundups.

In 2013, 26 orphaned Navajo foals were saved through Wild For Life Foundation's Mission. The foals had been discovered in life threatening situations. The foals ranging in ages from 2 - 7 months were orphaned during the roundups after losing their mothers to slaughter.

When nursing baby foals are deprived of their Mother's milk to nourish and protect them they need special milk-replacer feed and immune building supplements and around the clock special care. Time is of the essence to get them into a special care unit where they can receive the care they need. It can many months to restore their delicate systems to where they can grow and thrive.

Funds raised support the mission of the Wild For Life Foundation so that we can continue this lifesaving work.

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Navajo Horses

The actual number of horses residing on the Navajo reservation is uncertain, as there has been no census, and reports are considerably varied. Horses are labeled as “invasive species” by the livestock industry as a means to justify their removal from the rangelands. However, in other parts of the world such as the United Kingdom, where conservation grazing is practiced, wild horse herds are being successfully restored to the woodlands and pastures to restore the lands.

More than 2,000 horses and burros have been swept away from their Native homes as a result of the recent Navajo Nation roundups and they have been reportedly shipped for slaughter.

In a recent turn of events the widely contested Navajo roundups Navajo President Ben Shelly promised to suspend the roundups under pressure from his own people including the Nahooka’ Dine’ (Navajo Elders and Medicine People) and the Foundation to Protect New Mexico Wildlife, an organization founded by Gov. Richardson and actor, director and conservationist Robert Redford. The foundation is working to stop the slaughter of horses, including actively fighting efforts to reopen horse slaughterhouses in the United States.

Learn about Navajo's wild horses and the roundupsps

The Navajo Horse Rescue and Recovery Mission (NHRRM) is part of the Wild For Life Foundation Mission. Thank you for helping to make this mission a reality.