Friends of Animals

Photo Essay: March for Mustangs

By Edita Birnkrant and Dustin Garrett Rhodes
Photo Credit: Edita Birnkrant | Summer 2010

Priscilla Feral, FoA President, kicking off the rally with a rousing speech to the large gathering of wild horse advocates at Lafayette Square Park, across from the White House. People travelled from all over the country to demand an end to the BLM’s wild horse round-up and removal scheme.
Featured speaker Ginger Kathrens, an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and Executive Director of the Cloud Foundation—dedicated to the preservation of wild horses, and producer of the stunning Cloud documentaries, which document the mustang round-ups.


Actor Wendie Malick, star of “Frasier” and “Just Shoot Me!,” gave a stirring speech explaining why she’s such a dedicated wild horse advocate and why she supports our campaign.
The crowd listening to speakers at Lafayette Square Park.
The March concluded at the Department of the Interior, as the crowd chanted and demanded an employee of the Bureau of Land Management receive FoA’s letter to Secretary Ken Salazar.
Marching from Lafayette Square Park to the Department of the Interior Building, which houses Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s office.
Greenpeace employees standing in solidarity with our campaign to end the violent round-ups.

FoA president Priscilla Feral and actor Wendie Malick hand over a letter to Ken Salazar — demanding an end to the violent round-ups, capture and sterilization of wild horses and burros.