Spotlight on the overlooked role of horses as carbon sequesters
Horsetalk.co.nz Spotlight on the overlooked role of horses as carbon sequesters Share A band of Kiger mustangs on the range. The Kiger mustang is a strain of mustang horse located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oregon. © Craig C. Downer Horses and burros, including especially wild, naturally living ones, play a major role in combatting global warming and do this in a variety of ways. One of these concerns their superior ability to sequester, or “lock away”, carbon. They remove carbon from the atmosphere, where, in the form of carbon dioxide, methane and other hea...