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The mare had an 11-month-old foal, officials say.
A wild mustang died Saturday after being struck by a vehicle on the northern Outer Banks, the second deadly encounter betweens cars and horses in the last two weeks. The horse, a mare in her teens ...
The Corolla Wild Horse Fund shared photos of the foal in a Feb. 12 Facebook post, declaring it the first foal of 2024 on the northern end of the barrier islands. It is a male, just a week old and ...
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That same year, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, a nonprofit organization, was created to protect the horses from human interference. As a result of its efforts, the remainder of the herd was moved to a more remote part of the island, [6] where they were fenced into 1,800 acres (7.28 km 2 ; 2.81 sq mi) of combined federal and privately donated land.
The Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act (H.R. 126;113th Congress), if passed, would take wild horses from herds on the Cape Lookout National Seashore and introduced them to the herds in the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge in order to ensure genetic viability. [4]
The horse suffered a broken neck, officials say. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
The Banker horse is a breed [1] of semi-feral or feral horse (Equus ferus caballus) living on barrier islands in North Carolina's Outer Banks.It is small, hardy, and has a docile temperament, and is genetically related to the Carolina Marsh Tacky of South Carolina and Florida Cracker Horse breeds through their shared Colonial Spanish horse and Iberian horse descent.