04/10/2025
🚨 25 wild burros have tragically died at the BLM’s Axtell holding facility in Utah 🚨
Forcibly removed from their home in Utah’s Canyonlands, these burros were subjected to the stress, confinement, and exposure to pathogens—all of which create the perfect conditions for disease outbreaks.
This isn’t the first time. In 2023, 45 Nevada burros died at the same facility. The majority succumbed to hyperlipidemia, a blood disease linked to stress-induced anorexia. Additionally, six burros died from hemorrhaging during gelding, and four were euthanized due to severe health issues, as reported by Deseret News.
A respiratory outbreak in 2016 claimed more lives after a similar roundup.
Yet nearly a decade later, the BLM continues to stockpile wild horses and burros in holding facilities, putting their health at risk and burdening taxpayers with the escalating cost of confining captured animals in off-range facilities. The agency spends tens of millions of dollars annually to hold over 68,000 wild horses and burros in government corrals—an unsustainable and inhumane system.
How many more must die before the system changes?
It’s time for the BLM to prioritize in-the-wild conservation—not more roundups, confinement, and loss. These animals deserve freedom, not feedlots.
🚨 25 wild burros have tragically died at the BLM’s Axtell holding facility in Utah 🚨
Forcibly removed from their home in Utah’s Canyonlands, these burros were subjected to the stress, confinement, and exposure to pathogens—all of which create the perfect conditions for disease outbreaks.
This isn’t the first time. In 2023, 45 Nevada burros died at the same facility. The majority succumbed to hyperlipidemia, a blood disease linked to stress-induced anorexia. Additionally, six burros died from hemorrhaging during gelding, and four were euthanized due to severe health issues, as reported by Deseret News.
A respiratory outbreak in 2016 claimed more lives after a similar roundup.
Yet nearly a decade later, the BLM continues to stockpile wild horses and burros in holding facilities, putting their health at risk and burdening taxpayers with the escalating cost of confining captured animals in off-range facilities. The agency spends tens of millions of dollars annually to hold over 68,000 wild horses and burros in government corrals—an unsustainable and inhumane system.
How many more must die before the system changes?
It’s time for the BLM to prioritize in-the-wild conservation—not more roundups, confinement, and loss. These animals deserve freedom, not feedlots.
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