Virginia Range Fertility Control Program Coordinator
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THE AMERICAN WILD HORSE CAMPAIGN
The American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) is the nation’s leading wild horse protection organization. Its Virginia Range Fertility Control Program seeks to preserve and humanely reduce the size of the Virginia Range herd, a historic wild mustang population that ranges in a 300,000-acre habitat in Nevada spanning from Reno to Fernley in the north to Silver Spring and Carson City to the south. The herd is under pressure from habitat loss due to rapid development in the greater Reno area.
The AWHC’s Virginia Range Fertility Control Program utilizes a scientifically proven immunocontraceptive vaccine, PZP, delivered remotely to mares (female horses) by dart gun. The vaccine is more than 90% effective in preventing pregnancy in treated mares. In just over two years, the Program has become the largest fertility control program in the world for free-roaming horses. It has gained interna