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Alberta government says wild horse population has reached 'unacceptable' levels, advocates disagree (www.cbc.ca)
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It's hard to miss the horses on the way to the mountains.

They've established free-roaming populations throughout the foothills and grasslands of Alberta's eastern slopes, with herds of wild horses almost guaranteed to be seen off Highway 1 west of Calgary year-round.

But the abundance of what the Alberta government calls "feral horses" has reached "unacceptable" levels, according to the province's horse management strategy.

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[–] 8 points 6 months ago

The advocacy group does its own aerial survey of the Sundre zone's horse population. Glover, who has been a pilot for half a century, says the group counted 1,005 horses this year — just over the province's population threshold but significantly lower than the government's findings.

Last year, the provincial survey counted 855 horses in the Sundre zone.

Glover said that increase of more than 50 per cent is "physically and biologically impossible."

At the very least the government needs to look into why their numbers are inaccurate first

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