RENO, Nev. (AP)— Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as inhumane and unnecessary.
The Grammy Award-winning singer has asked President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to scrap a proposed roundup of 2,500 mustangs in northern Nevada.
“With one voice we are insisting that our government stop managing these beautiful and important animals to extinction,” Crow said in a statement released by the Cloud Foundation, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based horse advocacy group.
Sheryl Crow says wild mustangs being sacrificed in Western land grab
By Paul Eccleston
Published: 11:18AM BST 03 Jul 2008
Wild Mustangs
Wild Mustangs on the outskirts of Reno, Nevada
The singer Sheryl Crow is urging people to get involved in a campaign to save America’s wild horses.
"I think it will be a real shame when we look back and we don't have these incredible species, and I guess my best hope would be that people, individuals, step up at this point and really protect these animals," the 46-year-old Grammy-winning singer says in a documentary film "Saving the American Wild Horse."
The programme, which will be show on the American Documentary Channel, is directed by James Kleinert, narrated by Peter Coyote and features Viggo Mortensen.
Crow, who lives in Tennessee and owns a wild mustang named Colorado, says the animals are part of American history but are being sacrificed in big business' drive for Western lands.
"We're starting to get really, really far away from our heritage and what this country is based on," she says.
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