For years, feral horses have shared the land in and around the range lands where Candice and Jordan Camille live in British Columbia. Candice writes that it’s Jordan’s job as a Range Rider to “keep an eye on the herds, the grasslands and the boundary fences.”

Recently, he spotted a group of feral horses around a watering hole. Normally the horses would be spooked by his presence, but for some reason they were standing their ground. Being that Candice is a professional photographer, he let her know the horses were at close range so that she could come up and photograph them.

“What he did not realize was that they were standing their ground and protecting a new born foal that was stuck in deep mud near the watering hole,” the Camilles explained on their YouTube channel.

A white mare stood guard and charged at him every time he tried to approach the foal to free her. A stallion stood watch too, protecting the mare. The horses tried to chase Jordan off several times.

Jordan didn’t know how long the foal had been stuck for but he knew she had to be saved if she was to survive.

“Candice arrived to give Jordan a hand, it took the both of them to watch the mare and pull the foal out. This video shows clips through out what was probably two hours, of pulling the foal out, rubbing it down, giving it electro lites and waiting for the mare to re-claim the baby,” the pair writes of the rescue.

As they mentioned, they tried to warm her up but the foal was shaken and weakened by her ordeal. There were several moments of “touch and go” where the foal collapsed and got into more trouble and Jordan did too as the mare continued to try and protect her young one. Jordan even had to climb a tree!

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Wild animals around the world are starting to venture into cities, parks, and even ski resorts due to COVID-19 lockdowns. With people told to stay at home, animals are exploring areas that are usually off-limits. The rare moments are being captured by lucky individuals and shared with the world.

Sierra Nevada Ski Resort near Granada, Spain, closed over a month ago when Spain went into lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The snowy slopes were empty or at least that is what Regina Jimenez Caballero, local resident, thought when she took her dog for a stroll.

Since skiers were no longer using the hills, a herd of wild horses had a blast racing up the slopes. Regina and her dog were at the top of a hill when she spotted a herd of wild horses rounding the corner and trotting towards her. Thankfully, she had her phone handy to capture the amazing moment.

The majestic animals passed her with a beautiful bay horse pausing to look in her direction. The video showed the herd galloping up another hill and then out of the snow. The awe-inspiring moment has made the day of countless people. One person commented, “What a pleasant surprise nature gives us.” Another wrote, “Beautiful, free!!!”

Four-dozen Retuerta horses have been released into the wild in western Spain over the past two years as part of a project by Rewilding Europe, a nonprofit group that seeks to turn the loss of rural farming life into an opportunity to boost biodiversity.


The endangered Retuerta is one of the oldest horse breeds in Europe and most closely resembles the race of ancient Iberian horses that populated this region before being domesticated.

Retuertas are nearly extinct, with only about 150 remaining in Doñana National Park in southern Spain. Living in a single cluster there, the entire species could be wiped out by any potential disease or calamity.


So wildlife experts arranged to have two batches of two-dozen Retuertas each brought to the Campanarios de Azaba Biological Reserve, an unfenced area of western Spain that's believed to have once been native territory for the horses.

Animal advocates are applauding Congress for protecting wild horses and burros from roundups and slaughter with the 2018 spending bill, marking a major victory in the ongoing battle to protect them on public lands.

Despite protection under the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, which was enacted in 1971 to protect wild horses from “capture, branding, harassment, or death,” the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has continued to remove and warehouse thousands upon thousands of wild horses at the expense of taxpayers – a vast majority of who strongly oppose the agency’s incredibly cruel, wasteful and ongoing mismanagement of these American icons.

While their advocates have continued to push for measures that would protect them on public lands, the agency has become increasingly beholden to special interests that want to see them gone.

Last year, the House Appropriations Committee passed the spending bill with the Stewart Amendment as part of the 2018 budget, which would have allowed the BLM to kill 92,000 healthy wild horses who are currently in holding, in addition to those who are deemed excess on the range.

The backlash to the move was swift. Hundreds of thousands of people called their representatives, wrote letters and signed petitions in opposition, while more than 163,000 people signed a Care2 petition alone calling on Congress to protect wild horses and burros from roundups and slaughter.

Now, everyone who spoke out on this issue can celebrate a win with news that Congress has maintained prohibitions on destroying or slaughtering healthy wild horses and burros.


“The power of the people has prevailed,” said Suzanne Roy, Executive Director of AWHC. “We’re pleased that Congress has chosen to stand with the 80 percent of Americans who want America’s horses to be protected, not brutally slaughtered. We especially want to thank Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator Tom Udall for including wild horse protections in the Senate bill and insisting that they be contained in the final bill.”

The latest budget as passed by the House also prohibits government funding for horse slaughter inspections, which will effectively keep horse slaughter operations from resuming on U.S. soil.

“For the love of America’s heritage, for the respect of wild horses and burros, we are thrilled that Congress has rejected this sick horse slaughter plans,” said Marilyn Kroplick M.D., President of In Defense of Animals. “Congress has sent an important message that it will not have the blood of sentient beings on its hands. This is a victory for animal advocates and the majority of Americans who want solutions, not slaughter.”


While this is a major victory, the bill expires in September and the 2019 budget request is again calling for the bans on the killing and slaughter of mustangs and burros to be lifted. Wild the battle continues, wild horse advocates will be working to oppose any measures that would allow slaughter, and will continue to support measures that involve humanely managing them on the range.

“America’s mustangs are icons of the West and the American people want to keep our wild horses wild on the Western range,” Roy added. “We call on the Trump Administration to work with the non-profit sector to implement humane, scientific and publicly acceptable management solutions to protect these cherished animals on our Western public lands for future generations to enjoy.”

In a complex and highly delicate operation, carried out with military precision, four wild Przewalski’s horses have been returned to their native steppes, the Gobi desert region of southern Mongolia.

 The Return of Wild Horses project was first launched in 2011 and this month, in a collaboration between Prague Zoo and the Czech Army, a fourth group of the rare breed was prepared for the arduous journey from the Kbely military air transportation base in Prague to Bulgan.

The 24-hour journey required two stopovers for re-fuelling, with the horses, named after a Russian explorer and naturalist during an expedition, being moved from Prague Zoo to an acclimatisation centre, Dolni Dobrejov, some 50 miles from the capital.

All four mares will stay in their paddock for one year as part of their preparation for the return to the wild, eventually helping to expand the heads of the last surviving wild horses in the world.
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Wild Mustangs - A Legacy in 4K (Ultra High definition)

 Spectacular video capturing the view from the Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort in northeast Nevada.

What makes this particular GoPro video “extry special” is that it’s shot in 4K resolution (aka “ULTRA High Definition”), which is apparently the “next big thing” in digital entertainment, meaning your kids will soon be referring to the HDTV flat screen you just bought last year as a “relic.”

In a land of enormous skies and majestic valleys, Mustang Monument Wild Horse Eco-Resort & Sanctuary is home to over 600 Wild American Mustangs.


(NOTE: To enjoy this video is all its ULTRA HD splendor, click on the gear in the bottom right of the video player and set the “quality” to “2160p”…it may take a minute to load, because it’s just that ultra).

Volunteers, firefighters and RCMP worked tirelessly to rescue a wild horse who was stuck in a fast-moving creek in B.C.'s Okanagan.

A woman out for a walk on Saturday morning spotted the filly lying in Summerland's Trout Creek, with her head bobbing up and down in the raging water, reported Castanet.net. She called the O.A.T.S. Horse Rescue, which posted photos and details of what unfolded on its Facebook page.

Theresa Nolet uploaded video of the rescue on YouTube.

At one point, rescuers were able to put a noose around the six-month-old animal's head, but the scared horse got free. Nolet told CBC News that the horse had been in the icy water for several hours.


Firefighters, secured with ropes around their waists, were eventually able to lasso the filly. They then slid the exhausted horse onto a sheet of plywood and pulled that onto land.


The shivering animal, who was in shock and hypothermic, laid on her side as firefighters used towels to dry her off, reported CTV News.

Named "River," the horse is recovering from superficial injuries in foster care, according to O.A.T.S.' Facebook page.
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