The Wild Horses of Alberta, Canada, Need Your Help!
Photography by Run Wild Images
The wild horses of Alberta, Canada, are beloved around the world.
URGENT UPDATE March 15, 2025
From Help Alberta Wildies Society:
Alberta Govt has signed a contract with WHOAS.
There are those that despise the wild horses and those that love and admire them. If you truly care for the survival of this unique species and want to see them designated as a "naturalized species" PLEASE help with sending those emails, letters and phone calls to our politicians. They likely won't respond but they will definitely see the outrage filling their inboxes.
For our Alberta Residents:
We urge you to write or email your MLA and let them know that you are strictly opposed to this current intervention with the Alberta Mountain Horses.
Click here; for a complete list of your MLA's in Alberta
https://www.assembly.ab.ca/.../members-of.../constituencies
Alberta Residents:
Please click here to print a copy of the HAWS petition.
https://www.kshulkophotography.ca/.../Petition_to_Save...
To ALL our HAWS followers; please send in your emails of dissent to the politicians below:
Ministry and Rangeland Contact info
Loewen, Todd, Hon., MLA
Central Peace - Notley (Fairview Office)
Legislative Branch
Box 9
10410 - 110 Street
Fairview, AB
TOH 1LO
Toll Free Number: 1-866-835-4988
Phone: 780 835-7211
Fax: 780 835-7212
E-mail: centralpeace.notley@assembly.ab.ca
Smith, Danielle, Honourable Premier
307 Legislature Building
10800 - 97 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T5K 2B6
Phone: 780 427-2251
E-mail: premier@gov.ab.ca
Loewen, Todd, Honourable Minister of Forestry and Parks
323 Legislature Building
10800 - 97 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T5K 2B6
Phone: 780 644-7353
E-mail: todd.loewen@gov.ab.ca
E-mail: fp.minister@gov.ab.ca
Rangeland Director:
Alexandra Miller-Tait
Email: alexandra.miller-tait@gov.ab.ca
(This is the guy behind the Framework)
(This is the guy that wants the horses gone)
Alexander, Mike
Director, Rangeland Conservation and Stewardship Section
Forestry and Parks
Phone: 403 382-4299
Mike.Alexander@gov.ab.ca
Cartwright, Kelsey
Rangeland Program Specialist
Range Conservation and Stewardship Section
Forestry and Parks
Phone: 587 574-9930
Kelsey.Cartwright@gov.ab.ca
UPDATE: January 13, 2025
From Sandy Sharkey Photography:
The Alberta government must respond to this! The people have spoken! Here are the results of a new poll from Zoocheck, conducted by one of Canada’s largest professional polling and research firms (Malatest):
- 79% of Albertans are in favor of a hands-off management approach- without removing horses nor reducing the population through contraception programs, and
- 76% of Albertans are in favor of developing protection for wild horses
The Alberta government has received thousands of messages from Albertans, Canadians, Americans and people around the world, requesting that they stop plans to remove Alberta mountain horses from the landscape, and applying contraception to mares to make them infertile for up to five years. With only 1400 Alberta Mountain horses in existence, this WILL lead to extinction! How did the government respond to your messages? With cut-and-paste bureaucratic drivel filled with untruths about the ‘feral horses’.
Please- don’t stop now! It’s more important than ever to send messages to these officials, asking them to stop plans to harm the lives of beloved Alberta Mountain Horses, and to let them exist peacefully, as they have for 400 years. Let them be!
Here's the Contact Info:
Loewen, Todd
Minister Forestry and Parks
323 Legislature Building
10800 - 97 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T5K 2B6
Phone: 780 644-7353
E-mail: todd.loewen@gov.ab.ca
E-mail: fp.minister@gov.ab.ca
Smith, Danielle
Honourable Premier,
307 Legislature Building
10800 - 97 Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T5K 2B6
Phone: 780 427-2251
E-mail: premier@gov.ab.ca
Simieritsch, Rob
Executive Director
Lands Delivery and Coordination South
Forestry and Parks
Phone: 403 297-8713
Rob.Simieritsch@gov.ab.ca
Alexander, Mike
Director, Rangeland Conservation and Stewardship Section
Forestry and Parks
Phone: 403 382-4299
Mike.Alexander@gov.ab.ca
Cartwright, Kelsey
Rangeland Program Specialist
Range Conservation and Stewardship Section
Forestry and Parks
Phone: 587 574-9930
Kelsey.Cartwright@gov.ab.ca
With only 1500 Alberta wild horses in existence, the Alberta government is planning to reduce their numbers. These iconic wild horses survive extreme winters, and their lives face constant predators like mountain lions, bears and wolves. Mother nature has managed the horses' numbers for centuries.
But once again, wild horses are being scapegoated for range damage caused by profit driven industry and other human activities.
This is NOT what the public wants.
Please call or email Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and all of the other contacts above and tell them you are against a wild horse cull, and that this historic species needs full protection.
We have to make them pay attention to us!!
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