Through WFLF's NHRRM, the Wild for Life Foundation provides safe, loving and peaceful sanctuary services for rescued slaughter bound wild horses and burros. These services are only made possible through continued donations to WFLF.

The services we provide include transport, custodial care, veterinary treatment, health care, food and supplements, first aid, medical supplies, shelter, transitional housing, placement assistance, and long term sanctuary placement, etc. Equine refugees include horses and burros who’ve been victimized or displaced during government roundups, rescued equines saved from suffering or life threatening circumstances such as starvation, disaster, imminent death by destruction, barbaric slaughter, etc.

WFLF provides rescue and sanctuary service aid for at-risk horses and burros served through our equine rescue and sanctuary program, regardless of origin/breed, age, discipline, or lack of training. Although WFLF rescue missions are sometimes subtitled to help identify a particular group of at-risk equines or the general purpose of a rescue mission, we do not restrict aid to horses of a specific background as their origins may vary, such as BLM mustangs, Navajo, Forest Services, etc. No matter their geographical origin, we consider each and every one of them as our sacred relative. We believe that every animal life matters. However, we can only help save, protect and preserve them through our program when funding is sufficient to adequately serve their needs. We are an all volunteer tax exemption charity and we rely 100% on tax deductable donations to carry out our lifesaving mission.

History & Background of WFLF NHRRM:

The Navajo Horses Rescue & Recovery Mission (NHRRM), is a WFLF project under WFLF wild horse rescue & recovery mission. It was first founded in 2013 to raise awareness for the protection of horses and burros on Native lands. In 2013, WFLF had received reports and requests for help from Navajo tribal members, that Navajo government Rangers were storming their ranches, barns and homes, and taking horses straight to slaughter under a U.S. Government funded roundup that had been approved by the Navajo administration.

The Nohooka' Dine' (Navajo Elders and Medicine People) opposed the roundups and the slaughter and had unanimously passed a Resolution that states, “We strongly urge the Navajo Nation and U.S. Government, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), DOI, USDA, to stop the desecration and destruction of the Diné Way of Life and Spiritual Foundation by recklessly promoting and supporting the roundup and mass execution of our relative, the horse.” (more)

WFLF began working together with the traditional Navajo people in effort to create an environment that promotes the humane treatment of all animals. Shortly thereafter WFLF received a tip that over two dozen baby foals were discovered in life threatening situations after losing their mothers to slaughter. The NHRRM's first grassroots rescue and evacuation was then organized in effort to save the baby horses. This was a collaborative grassroots effort which was made possible by the outpouring support of WFLF compassionate constituents. (more)

A circle of support grew behind the scenes and eventually several meetings were held with the Navajo President, the Elders and pro-horse advocates in effort resolve the issues and protect the horses. In the meantime, several months went by with countless horses and burros disappearing, never to be seen again.

Just before the end of the year WFLF received another tip about several bands of young fillies and colts that had escaped the roundups, but had then been captured. Their lives were in danger due to the constant flow of kill trucks being filled everyday with shipments of innocent mustangs headed across federal borders to Mexico for gruesome slaughter. Thankfully, with the compassionate and devoted support of WFLF's caring and loyal donors, WFLF was able to work out the details just in time to save the captured bands of fillies and colts.

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The below clip features Chief Arvol Looking Horse, of the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Nations, as he speaks out in prayer for the protection of America's horses and burros. Courtesy: Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed.

In the absence of federal protection, over 100,000 American horses are shipped across federal borders to slaughter plants in Mexico and Canada each year. What most people don't realize is that the majority of the horses sent to slaughter are sound, young and healthy. These are among America’s finest and brightest horses, including sacred Native wild mustangs and burros taken from their rightful homelands, champion show horses, Thoroughbred racehorses, and even summer camp ponies.

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Donations to the Wild for Life Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent permitted by law. Federal ID No. 26-3052458