The American Horse Defense Fund announces its first ever Spotlight Award for equine rescues and its April 2007 winner, Return to Freedom.
(1888PressRelease) March 29, 2007 - Washington, DC- April 2007-- The American Horse Defense Fund (AHDF), the nation’s premier equine welfare organization, announces its first rescue resource program, the Rescue Spotlight Award. Each month the AHDF staff will select an exceptional equine rescue that will be highlighted on the AHDF website and will receive the AHDF Rescue Spotlight Award. Each award comes with a donation for the rescue to use to help facilitate their equine rescue efforts. Additionally, at the end of each year an award for Rescue of the Year will be awarded to one of the monthly winners. This ongoing program is just the first of several programs the AHDF plans to implement in the next two years designed to enhance and support rescues nationwide.
“We are very happy to be able to support equine rescue facilities around the country with this award,” said Shelley Sawhook the president of the American Horse Defense Fund, “it gives something back to those who directly impact the lives of equine and is the only award of its kind”.
The April 2007 award is being given to Return to Freedom, a facility that houses over two hundred wild horses in a natural setting. Return to Freedom is designed to be a model program, which explores alternative and minimally intrusive management philosophies. The facility recognizes that wild horses live in tightly bonded herd groups, but due to space constraints they have designed a non-hormonal, reversible contraception to keep population down and conserve habitat that allows the mares and stallions to coexist as they do in nature.
“I couldn’t be happier that we selected such a wonderful program to be our first ever Spotlight Award winner,” said Sawhook. “We support any program that helps horses, but this one also is working to preserve the horses in their natural family bands as well as working to conserve the rare and diverse bloodlines that make up the real American Horse, the Mustang.”
Return to Freedom offers not only a safe haven for wild horses in their most natural state; it also offers a wide spectrum of experiential education programs. Programs include Living History Tours and hands on clinics. “The programs of Return to Freedom are exceptional,” said Sawhook. “We look forward to seeing what the future brings to the organization and are excited to play a part in the advancement of that future.”
For more information on Return to Freedom and the American Horse Defense Fund please visit the AHDF’s informative website, www.AHDF.org.
The American Horse Defense Fund announces its first ever Spotlight Award for equine rescues and its April 2007 winner, Return to Freedom. 
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