WASHINGTON — Advocates from the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign asked members of an advisory board to the Bureau of Land Management Monday to use a birth control vaccine to control the wild horse population in Southeastern Oregon. By using the immunocontraception porcine zona pellucida, or PZP, the BLM could keep the population of 3,120 wild horses in Oregon in check, Without outside intervention, wild horse herds are capable of doubling in four years, according to government studies, and the government maintains the wild horse population would overburden public resources if left unchecked. bendbulletin/localstate/2778610-151/blm-asked-to-consider-vaccine-to-control-wild
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:43:33 +0000
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