UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The USA takes a more federal power approach to law surrounding wild horses. The management go wild horses in the United States is the responsibility of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which is an agency of the Department of the Interior(Pierce, 2020). The legislation which covers the wild horse population is the Wild-Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. American wild horses are included as part of public land as well as being a part of the culture and heritage of US (Pierce, 2020). The BL M’s efforts on wild horse management have been criticized under by the Animal Welfare Institute and the American Wild Horse Campaign (Pierce, 2020). The BLM has been operating with the view that the wild horses are threatening to the environment and lands that they live on (Pierce, 2020). The United States uses the helicopter round-up method to collect wild horses (Pierce, 2020). This involves helicopters flying low to cause stampedes of horses into fences which funnel the horses into pens (Pierce, 2020). The problem with this is frightened horses are a danger to themselves, other horses and even humans (Pierce, 2020).
NEW ZEALAND
In northern New Zealand in the Kaimanawa area, there is a wild horse population (Department of Conservation). The population is managed by the department of conservation while the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Advisory group is allowed to have input (Department of Conservation). These horses are seen by the government as a threat to the plants as well as the ecosystems they inhabit (Department of Conservation). This threat to the environment as be argued in jurisdictions around the world. It is important to note that on the Department of Conservation’s website the Kaimanawa horses are under the heading of animal pests. There was a Kaimanawa Wild Horse Plan that was replaced in 2004 but the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Working Plan (Department of Conservation). Every two years there is the capture of wild horses that are gentrified and then put up for adoption (Department of Conservation). The Kaimanawa Wild Horse Advisory Group as approved two groups to handle the adoption process; the Kaimanawa Heritage Horses and the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Preservation Society (Department of Conservation).